New Mexico Authors

Author of the mystery series about Albuquerque-based PR Director Sasha Solomon.

Noted anthropologist and historian. Served as Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico. Author of The Collapse of Complex Societies, based partly upon his time working in the Cibola National Forest and considerations of the demise of the Chaco Canyon Culture.

Clinical laboratory scientist with the Public Health Service. Contributor to Fly Fishing in Northern New Mexico.

Lived for many years in Santa Fe; professor at Standord University. Writer of articles and stories for many periodicals including the New Yorker. Winner of an O. Henry Award and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Several collections of short stories including Mendocino Fire and Honey and the novel Museum Pieces.

Las Cruces. Freelance writer, editor of Las Cruces magazine. Author of Legendary Locals of Las Cruces, New Mexico.

Santa Fe. Events planner, marketing and creative director of The Santa Fe Catalogue, writer at The Essential Guide to Santa Fe and Taos. Contributor to La Fonda Then & Now.

Navajo, born in Shiprock. Poet and lecturer. Degree from UNM, and taught there. Her poetry is noted for a strong rhythm derived from being composed in her native tongue. Numerous awards, including being named the Navajo Nation's first Poet Laureate. Many works / collections, including Blue Horses Rush In and A Radiant Curve: poems and stories. Author of books for children including Songs of Shiprock Fair and Navajo ABC: A Diné Alphabet.

Associate professor of criminology at New Mexico State University. Author of Gangs of the El Paso-Juárez Borderland: A History and The Barrio Gangs of San Antonio, 1915-2015.

Albuquerque. Playwright, screenwriter, writer of articles for national periodicals. Author of several books for young people including The Crow and Annushka's Voyage.

Author/editor/illustrator of several books on life in New Mexico, including Growing Up in New Mexico and The Penitentes of the Sangre de Cristos: an American tragedy and Truchas ... village with a view; life in a Spanish village.

Los Alamos. Retired nuclear scientist with a doctorate in chemical physics. Author of short fiction and poetry, and several novels including the fantasy Too Far to Cry.

Gallup. Former teacher and principal for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and instructor at UNM-Gallup. Masters in education from the UNM. Author of Looking for Dan: The Puzzling Life of a Frontier Character, Daniel Dubois and Navajo Scouts During the Apache Wars.

Albuquerque. Former nuclear engineer and manager at Sandia Labs. Author / co-author / co-editor of numerous books including works about New Mexico history, including Bloody Valverde : a Civil War battle on the Rio Grande, February 21, 1862 and Catholics Along the Rio Grande and The School on the Bluff : a history of the University of Albuquerque and A Legacy of Heroism: New Mexico's Medal of Honor Recipients. Co-author, with Richard Melzer and Cynthia Shetter, of Daniel D. Fernandez: The Man Behind the Medal of Honor.

(Also wrote as Mary Daniels, Mary D. Taylor)(1922-2007) Mesilla, southern New Mexico. Historian, art collector, English teacher. Strong advocate for the preservation of Hispanic culture; instrumental in the archiving and microfilming of Mexican documents including work through the New Mexico State University. Served as the archivist for the Diocese of Las Cruces. Author of several works including A Place as Wild as the West Ever Was: Mesilla, New Mexico 1848-1872.

Alamogordo. Reporter, including with the Alamogordo Daily News. Author of Dance of the Trustees: On the Astonishing Concerns of a Small Ohio Township and Sealand: The True Story of the World's Most Stubborn Micronation and Its Eccentric Royal Family.

Author of the cyberpunk science fiction novel Implanted.

Gallup. Co-author, with Bob Rosebrough, of The Gallup Guide : Outdoor Routes in Red Rock Country.

(1929-2016) Operated a guest ranch near Santa Fe. Writer of science fiction and horror, and several mystery series including those under the pseudonyms A.J. Orde and B.J. Oliphant. Under her own name author of numerous science fiction works (often considered "feminist" SF) including The Fresco and Singer from the Sea.

Raised in Deming. Fiction in numerous periodicals; nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the PEN/O. Henry Prize. Author of Kingdom of the Sun featuring stories set in the Deming area.

Albuquerque author of several works, including Class Disunion and Black Widow, White Lies, a mystery set in Chama.

Albuquerque. Longtime grade school teacher. Served as a member of the Governor's Climate Change Advisory Group. Author of the novel Steps of the Sun. Author of Powering the Future : new energy technologies.

Professor of Creative Writing at UNM. Fulbright Scholar and recipient of the Robert Frost and Robinson Jeffers awards. Work appears in many journals; widely published translator. Author of numerous books of poetry, nonfiction, and creative writing pedagogy, including Echolocations and Resistance Fantasies and Winding Roads: Exercises in Writing Creative Nonfiction.

Physicist, mathematician. Degree from New Mexico Tech. Inventor of a non-reversing mirror. President of New Mexicans for Science and Reason, past president of the New Mexico Academy of Science, Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Researcher on many paranormal claims, including the Roswell UFO crash. Columnist for The Skeptical Inquirer.

Las Cruces. PhD from Texas Tech. Filmmaker; historian of southern New Mexico. Founder of Friends of Pat Garrett. Several books in the Mesilla Valley History Series including La Posta - From the Founding of Mesilla, to Corn Exchange Hotel, to Billy the Kid Museum, to Famous Landmark and Billy The Kid's Grave: A History of the Wild West's Most Famous Death Marker.

Socorro. Author of several novels including Hat Dance.

(1864-1961) Clayton New Mexico. Businessman, publisher, civic leader, and historian. Writer of articles for local and regional publications including Colorado Magazine and Cattleman. Wrote on the history of Clayton, Union County, and northeastern New Mexico, and outlaw Black Jack Ketchum. Author of The story of early Clayton, New Mexico. Albert W. Thompson Memorial Library in Clayton named in his honor.

Staffer at Philmont Boy Scout Ranch. Fishing guide in Northern New Mexico; active in wildlife preservation. Contributor to Fly Fishing in Northern New Mexico.

Settled in Capitan after retiring from the National Park Service. Author of his memoir, Underground Ranger : adventures in Carlsbad Caverns National Park and other remarkable places.

Santa Fe. Writes on food, interior design, and architecture. Served as editor on several publications including Texas Monthly. Writer of articles for numerous publications including Architectural Digest and Martha Stewart Living. Author of several books including Santa Fe Modern.

Splits his time between Ruidoso and Maine. Author of horror and thriller novels, and Westerns (under the name J.M. Thompson).

Diesel mechanic; graphic designer. Stories and graphic art in numerous publications and anthologies. Editor of the Dead Guns Press crime fiction series. Author of It's A Lonely World: An Indie Author's Journey (Writing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them). Author of the novel Truck Stop, a crime mystery set in Moriarty.

Born and raised in Roswell, resident of Albuquerque. Degrees from UNM. Photographer and painter. Author of Running Around the Pecos: A Ghostly Folktale about New Mexico.

Born and raised on a ranch in New Mexico. Author of numerous period Westerns set in real 1880s New Mexico locations, including dozens of books in the U.S. Marshal Shorty Thompson "Tales of the Old West" series.

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Santa Fe. Author of the novel Anna Delaney's Child and the non-fiction work Another Way Home: a single father's story and A Hundred Fires in Cuba which won several awards for historical fiction.

Nathan Howard Thorp. AKA: Howard Thorp, Jack Thorp, "Cowboy Jack". (1867-1940) Moved to NM from New York as a young man, working as a rancher and surveyor. Became a collector and recorder of folk tales and music. Noted folk musicologist, cowboy poet, and author of numerous works including Songs of the Cowboys and Tales of the Chuck Wagon.

Degree from University of Arkansas; Ph.D. in English from UNM. Served as head of acquisitions for Zimmerman Library at UNM. Editor of / contributor to several works on NM including A Million Stars : the millionth acquisition for the University of New Mexico General Library and Labor in New Mexico : unions, strikes, and social history since 1881.

Degrees from University of Nebraska and Cornell University. Teacher at UNM. Contributor to Labor in New Mexico : unions, strikes, and social history since 1881; co-editor of Leslie Marmon Silko : a collection of critical essays.

Corrales wife & husband writing team, with numerous series & novels. Best known for their mystery series set in New Mexico: the series about Navajo FBI Agent Ella Clah, a series about Navajo "vampire" Lee Nez, and the series about nun Sister Agatha.

Santa Fe. Psychic and spiritual counselor, professional astrologer. Author of numerous books including Thymely Tales and Traveling on the River of Time.

Botanist and anthropologist. Author/photographer of Roadside Plants of northern New Mexico; co-author (with William W. Dunmire) of Wild plants and native peoples of the Four Corners and Wild plants of the Pueblo Province : exploring ancient and enduring uses.

Santa Fe. Retired land planner; worked with the City's Archaeological Review Committee and the Historic Design Review Board. Historian with the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division. Writer of articles for various periodicals. Author / editor of several works including Spanish Colonial Women and the Law : complaints, lawsuits, and criminal behavior : documents from the Spanish Colonial Archives of New Mexico, 1697-1749.

(1926- ) AKA: El Tigre, King Tiger. Leader of the Alianza Federal de Mercedes, a group that in the 1960s and 1970s strove to draw attention to legal issues surrounding land grant rights in New Mexico. A dynamic spokesperson and activist, Tijerina led the group in two events that drew national attention: the occupation of part of the Kit Carson National Forest to proclaim the Republic of San Joaquin, and the armed raid on the Tierra Amarilla Courthouse. Author of several works, including Mi lucha por la tierra and They called me "King Tiger" : my struggle for the land and our rights.

Ph.D. in history from UNM. Author / editor of several works about New Mexico, primarily regarding the Jicarilla Apache. Works include: The Jicarilla Apache of Dulce; The Jicarilla Apache Tribe : A History, and Tiller's Guide to Indian Country : economic profiles of American Indian reservations.

Albuquerque author of several books, including The Pageant Unveiled : called to serve her God, tempted to follow her passion.
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AKA: L.S. Tireman. (1896–1959) A pioneer in bilingual and community education. In 1927, began his thirty-two-year career at the University of New Mexico as a professor of elementary education. In 1947 established a curriculum materials center, which grew into a library located at the University of New Mexico College of Education. Developed the San Jose Experimental School. Author of the Mesaland series of books.

Navajo from Chinle Arizona. Graduate of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe. Featured in Neon Pow-wow : new Native American voices of the Southwest.

Taught at UNM 1959-1959; retired from the University of Oklahoma in 1988. Author / co-author of several works on NM history including Santa Fe : a modern history, 1880-1990 and A History of the Jews in New Mexico.

Poet and librettist. Numerous awards. Co-editor of Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers on Community. Author of Code Talker Stories. Author of several books of poetry including No Parole Today. Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation as of 2013. Named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow in 2020.

Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the University of New Mexico. Editor / co-editor of several books including Textbook of Psychiatric Epidemiology and Bipolar Psychopharmacotherapy: Caring for the Patient.

Northern New Mexico. Degrees in Communication and English Literature from UNM. Writer of numerous short works, novels, microfiction, and short story collections, many of them set in Territorial New Mexico, including Not My Father's House and No Secret Too Small and Old One Eye Pete.

Author of two collections of short stories and the novel The Golden Grain: a New Mexican love story.

(1906-1997). Clyde William Tombaugh. Astronomer who chose southern New Mexico to pursue his research. Worked at White Sands Missile Range, taught at New Mexico State University. Famous for the discovery of Pluto, but also identified hundreds of asteroids. Inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1980. Co-author of Out of the Darkness: The Planet Pluto.

Albuquerque. Spent ten years as a player in the National Football League. Writer of numerous articles about pro football. Author of The Crunch about the Dallas Cowboys and the novel On Any Given Sunday.

Albuquerque. Part of the writing trio, with Marion Woolf and Margery W. (Midge) Papich, who jointly write under the pen name Marion Margery Layne.

Teaches creative writing at UNM; previously worked as a reporter/commentator and producer of public affairs programs for ABC and PBS. Author of several works, including a series of novels about crypto-jews, the third volume of which, Secrets Behind Adobe Walls, is set in New Mexico.

Albuquerque. Author / illustrator of the children's book The Bear and Winter, which was published when she was 8 years old.

AKA: Cheo Torres. Has served as Vice President for Student Affairs and a member of the Department of Language, Literacy and Sociocultural Studies faculty at UNM; teacher of curanderismo. Author of several works on traditional healing including Curanderismo: The Art of Traditional Medicine without Borders. Co-author, with Timothy L. Sawyer, of Curandero: A Life in Mexican Folk Healing and Stories of Mexico's Independence Days and Other Bilingual Children's Fables and Healing with Herbs and Rituals : A Mexican Tradition.

Tijeras. Freelance copywriter and editor. MFA in Creative Writing/Fiction from UNM. Writer of articles for periodicals including Su Casa magazine.

(1955-2010) Educator with the English department of UNM. Author of numerous articles and the book Conversations with Contemporary Chicana and Chicano writers.

Editor, writer of numerous articles on environmental issues for periodicals including Blue Mesa Review and High Country News and High Desert Journal.

Served as New Mexico State Historian. Author / co-author / editor of numerous books about New Mexico's history, including A History of New Mexico Since Statehood; Myth of the Hanging Tree : stories of crime and punishment in territorial New Mexico ; and UFOs over Galisteo and other stories of New Mexico's history.

Collector/recorder of oral histories for the Federal Writer's Project in the late 1930s.

Santa Fe. Artist, curator, art critic. Artwork in collections worldwide including the Museum of Modern Art. Organized and curated exhibits in numerous institutions including the Museum of Indian Arts, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Educator at several institutions. Writing and art in numerous books and periodicals. Author of It Stops With Me: Memoir of a Canuck Girl.

Journalist, former managing editor of Navajo Nation Today. Author of The Success of the Navajo Arts and Crafts Enterprise : a retail success story.

Degree from UNM School of Law. Has worked on staff and as an instructor at UNM. Has acted as Senior Staff Attorney for Disability Rights New Mexico and Executive Director of the New Mexico Commission for the Blind. Served as President of the National Council of State Agencies for the Blind. Co-author, with Richard Melzer and John Taylor, of USS New Mexico BB-40 about the US Navy battleship that served 1918-1946.

Degrees in printmaking and American Studies from UNM; curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe. Previously worked at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, the UNM Art Museum, and the Jonson Gallery. Author of several works including Pueblo Architecture and Modern Adobes : the residential designs of William Lumpkins and Gustave Baumann's Southwest and New Mexico Art Through Time : prehistory to the present.

Albuquerque. Author of the mystery series about Albuquerque police detective BJ Vinson.

Roswell. Retired school teacher, rancher. Witnessed the detonation of the Trinity device while on station upon a fire lookout tower near Ruidoso. Author of several collections of oral regional histories, including Tales of the Sierra Blanca and (with Louise Coe Runnels) The Saga of the Sierra Blanca.

Los Alamos Labs scientist, Santa Fe author. Writer in the Wild Cards universe. Author of the Milkweed Triptych books, involving an alternate WWII where Nazi scientifically-created supersoldiers battle supernatural forces raised by the warlocks of England. Author of the Alchemy Wars series, beginning with The Mechanical, and Something More Than Night about a fallen angel who perceives humans through the lens of a noir detective.

Northern New Mexico. Author of the Trent Carter series of novels, Western mysteries set around Raton that incorporate local history.

Also writes as Elisabeth Kidd. Albuquerque. Copy editor, theater critic; writer of short stories, newspaper features and travel articles. As Elisabeth Kidd, author of numerous historical and Regency romances.

Santa Fe. Press secretary to 21st Governor of NM Jack M. Campbell. Author of The Story of New Mexico; co-author, ("as told to", with Charles C. Poling) of Jack M. Campbell : the autobiography of New Mexico's first modern governor.

Albuquerque. Educator at several universities including UNM. Poet with works in many journals including Talisman. Co-founder, with Mary RIsing Higgins, of the Albuquerque poetry circle L)Edge. Author of How Sound Records Its Alphabet and Sound Remains.

Member of the Corrales Writing Group. Author of her autobiography The Journey of an Adventuresome Dane. Featured in the Corrales Writing Group Anthologies.

Associated with the Corrales Writing Group. Featured in the Corrales Writing Group Anthologies.

Member of the Corrales Writing Group. Featured in the Corrales Writing Group Anthologies.

Longtime Albuquerque radio personality. Author of Fishing with My Fly Down: A Fly-Fishing Career Ruined by Rock Radio.

Albuquerque. Pilot, former TV weatherman. Author of several books on wildlife including The Hummingbirds of North America and A Family of Eagles and Flying Free; author of What Do Women Want From Men?.

AKA: Pete Trujillo. Born in Palma. Author of Hispanics of Roosevelt County, New Mexico : a history about his family's experiences as migrant farm laborers.

Espanola, descendant of original settlers. Potter and pottery teacher; curandera herbalist. Author of Espanola for the Images of America series.

Born and raised in Las Vegas New Mexico, moved to California. PhD in educational psychology, teaches writing. Multiple award winner. Author of numerous non-fiction books and the novel Faith and Fat Chances which is set in New Mexico.

PhD in anthropology from the University of Texas. Assistant professor of American and Chicano Hispano Mexicano Studies at UNM. Author of Land of Disenchantment : Latina/o identities and transformations in northern New Mexico.

Seventh-generation New Mexican, Chimayó. Biologist and historian. Author of Chimayó for the Images of America series.

(1937-2018) Reporter for newspapers in California and New Mexico, including award-winning work for the Clovis News-Journal. Writer of articles for regional and national magazines, including Mechanix Illustrated. Winner of a New Mexico Press Association award in 1961. Author of Juan Patron: A Fallen Star in the Days of Billy the Kid.

Jazz singer, writing teacher; has lived off and on in New Mexico, dividing her time with Philadelphia. Author of many books including The Cure for Common Life and Shout Down the Moon. Author's website

Native New Mexican, grew up in Santa Fe. Degrees from UNM; educator and administrator, recipient of the Princeton Prize for Distinguished Teaching. Feature editor and writer for several magazines including Santa Fe Lifestyle and Southwest Profile. Co-author, with Joseph Dispenza, of Will Shuster: a Santa Fe legend; contributor to Public Art and Architecture in New Mexico 1933-1943 : a guide to the New Deal legacy.

Grew up in New Mexico. "Works on restoring a steam locomotive, amateur astronomy, writing, photography, and occasionally plays cowboy on a remote ranch" - book jacket. Author of the story collection Remembering the Wind and the novel Falling Into the Stars.

Santa Fe. Essays and commentaries published in various periodicals including The Denver Post and The Los Angeles Times and collected in numerous anthologies; works heard on regional public radio. Co-founder of the Border Book Festival. Award-winning author of numerous works, some in memoir form, including Barren, Wild, and Worthless: Living in the Chihuahuan Desert and Rocky Mountain Garden Survival Guide and The Great Southwest Nature Factbook: A Guide to the Region's Remarkable Animals, Plants, and Natural Features.

Sandia Park. Artist, toy designer, illustrator with works in numerous publications and public spaces. Author / illustrator / co-author of numerous books for children, primarily regarding nature and animals, some of which have won awards from educational institutions. Titles include Giggly Wiggly Worms: A Wriggly Finger Puppet Book and Three Hungry Spiders and One Fat Fly! and E is for Enchantment: A New Mexico Alphabet.

Santa Fe, native New Mexican. Great-grandnephew of Ralph Emerson Twitchell. Degree in History from Northern Arizona University and an MA in Public Affairs from New Mexico Highlands University. Author of Ralph Emerson Twitchell, The Historian Who Found New Mexico's Future in the Past.

Wife to Ralph Emerson Twitchell, with whom she collaborated on a number of books of NM history including Old Santa Fe.

AKA: Ralph E. Twitchell. (1859-1925) Lived in the Las Vegas New Mexico area. Served as mayor of Santa Fe and chairman of the Rio Grande Commission; prosecuting attorney for Santa Fe County. Author of a number of books on New Mexico history, sometimes written in concert with his wife Estelle Burton Twitchell. Noted titles include The Leading Facts of New Mexico History and The Spanish Archives of New Mexico and three works on Santa Fe.

Ph.D. in American Studies at UNM. State Archivist at the Idaho State Historical Society. Historian specializing in Route 66. Author / editor of / contributor to several works including
Conversations with Barry Lopez : walking the path of imagination and The Pueblo revival architecture of John Gaw Meem.

Ph.D. from UNM. Specializing in history of the American West and the Spanish borderlands. Author / editor of several works including Sources for New Mexican history, 1821-1848 and The Mythical Pueblo Rights Doctrine : water administration in Hispanic New Mexico.