New Mexico Authors

Retired Foreign Service Officer who spent nine years in Milan and Rome during his career, and now writes tourist materials about Italy. Author of the Rick Montoya mystery series, about a transplanted New Mexican working as a translator in Italy.

(1913-2006) Spent over 70 years in the Southwest, primarily in Santa Fe. With her husband operated a trading post in Arizona. Noted philanthropist and activist for social, cultural, and educational causes. Author of Wide Ruins: memories from a Navajo trading post.

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at UNM. Author / co-author of numerous books on health care including Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire.

Santa Fe. Real estate broker. Author / co-author of several works about Santa Fe real estate including Understanding and Buying Santa Fe Real Estate.

Science fiction author. Won the Locus Award for her first novel, Whiteout.

Corrales. Editor of Corrales MainStreet News for three years; writer of articles for area periodicals including Albuquerque, The Magazine. Member of the Corrales Writing Group. Co-editor/editor of two Corrales Writing Group anthologies. Author of the novel The War Within: the story of Josef.

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

(1827-1905) Lewis Wallace. Lawyer; Union General in the Civil War. Served as Governor of the Territory of New Mexico 1878-1881, during which period he finished his book Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, published 1880; until Gone With the Wind, this book was the best-selling English language novel in history. Was involved in bringing about the end of the Lincoln County War, famously offering amnesty to some of those involved including Billy the Kid. Was appointed U.S. Minister to the Ottoman Empire 1881-1885. Quote attributed to Wallace: "Calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico".

(1830-1907) Wife of New Mexico Territorial Governor Lew Wallace, who wrote Ben-Hur. A poet and author who was published before her husband, she wrote a book about her experiences in New Mexico, The Land of the Pueblos.

Tulsa Oklahoma, sometimes resident of New Mexico. Author of numerous works on Route 66, and the books Billy the Kid: the endless ride and Heaven's Window: a journey through Northern New Mexico.

Taught in the Presbyterian Day School at Truchas. Author of I remember, I remember Truchas : the way it was, 1936-1956.

Santa Fe. Essays in various anthologies. Has served as editor in chief of El Palacio magazine. Co-editor of Dear John: I Love Jane: Women Write About Leaving Men For Women; author of Licking the Spoon: a memoir of food, family, and identity.

Northern New Mexico. Former journalist; ranger with New Mexico State Parks. Co-author, with Patricia Veltri, of Sugarite Coal Camp for the Images of America series. Author of A Prairie Mourning and the mystery Kiss of the Snake set in southern New Mexico.

(1873-1966) Came to Santa Fe in 1899, served as Postmaster 1902-1909. Purchased the Santa Fe New Mexican and served as editor for 3 years. Involved in developing the New Mexico Museum of Art, the School of American Research, the first modern Santa Fe Fiesta, the Indian Fair, and El Palacio magazine. Lawyer, served as president of the First National Bank of Santa Fe. Served as officer with the New Mexico Historical Society, the Rotary Club, and the New Mexico Bar Association. Author / co-author of several works on New Mexico history including Banking in New Mexico Before the Railroad Came! and The Land of Sunshine : a handbook of the resources, products, industries and climate of New Mexico .

Canoncito. Navajo poet. Featured in Neon pow-wow : new Native American voices of the Southwest.

Restaurant owner in Santa Fe. Founder of Cooking with Kids. Author of Cooking at the Natural Cafe in Santa Fe.

(1894-1961) Born in New Mexico. Academic, poet; PhD from Berkeley. Mentored Henry Roth. Translated Navajo works. Studied with Witter Bynner, with whom she co-authored Dawn Boy: Blackfoot And Navajo Songs. Author of several poetry collections including Turquoise Boy and White Shell Girl.

Grew up in Las Cruces, divides her time between New Mexico and Minnesota. Winner of several prizes including a Witter Bynner Fellowship. Poetry in numerous publications including The Atlantic Monthly and Missouri Review. Author of several poetry collections including On Speaking Terms and Rival Gardens.

Also writes as Dora L. Wang. Assistant professor and a historian for the UNM School of Medicine. Co-author of The Daily Practice of Compassion : a history of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, its people, and its mission, 1964-2014. Author of The Kitchen Shrink : a psychiatrist's reflections on healing in a changing world.

Albuquerque. Author of the novel The Linden and the Oak.

Albuquerque East Mountains. Author of The Tinker of Tinkertown : The Life and Art of Ross Ward about her husband's distinctive folk art museum.

Santa Fe. Founded Beit Midrash of Santa Fe, a multi-faith sacred learning community. Scholar-in-Residence at Temple Beth Shalom in Santa Fe. Author of The Liberating Path of the Hebrew Prophets: Then and Now.

Served as Project Director of the Office of Archaeological Studies of the Museum of New Mexico. Specializing in Archaeology, Historical Ethnography, and Pueblo Social History. National Endowment for the Humanities Resident Scholar at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe. Author of A Pueblo Social History: Kinship, Sodality, and Community in the Northern Southwest.

Photography Curator for the New Mexico Museum of Art. Involved in ¡Órale! lowrider : custom made in New Mexico and The Black Place -- two seasons. Author of Earth Now : American photographers and the environment.

Raymond Jonson Curator at the University of New Mexico Art Museum. Author of To Form From Air : music and the art of Raymond Jonson.

Taos Pueblo. Studied art with his mother Eva Mirabal, then at UNM. Paintings in several important collections. Illustrator on Kiki's Journey; author/illustrator of Taos Pueblo: painted stories.

(1893-1951) Lived in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project days. Featured in two noted books, The House at Otowi Bridge by Peggy Pond Church and The Woman at Otowi Crossing by Frank Waters. Author of In the Shadow of Los Alamos : selected writings of Edith Warner.

Professor of English at the University of New Mexico. Founder and director of the Taos Summer Writers’ Conference. Author of Learning to Dance and Other Stories and the novel Deep in the Heart; author of Writing the Novella. Editor of The Way We Write Now: Short Stories from the AIDS Crisis.

Former staff photographer for the Museum of New Mexico's Laboratory of Anthropology. Author of several works including Villages of Hispanic New Mexico and New Mexico Style : a sourcebook of traditional architectural details.

(1950-2019) Santa Fe. Poet, shaman, drummer, publisher. Author / co-author of numerous collections of poetry including Follow Hawk and The Weight of Dusk.

(1939-2012) Andrew Richard Wasowski. Taos. Author of the novel Sellin the Sizzle; photographer, author and co-author (with wife Sally Wasowski) of ten books on native plants including Landscaping Revolution: Garden With Mother Nature, Not Against Her.

Taos. Author or co-author (with husband Andy Wasowski of numerous works on landscaping with native plants including Native landscaping from El Paso to L.A. and Gardening with Native Plants of the South.

MFA from the University of New Mexico. Teacher of English. Writings in several publications including Prairie Schooner. Author of the poetry collection When Creation Falls.

(1902-1995) Taos/Arroyo Seco. Served as editor of El Crepusculo, Taos' bilingual newspaper. Director of the New Mexico Arts Commission. Author of many works about the Southwest, including People of the Valley and The Man Who Killed the Deer and The Woman at Otowi Crossing. The Frank Waters Foundation in Arroyo Seco, under the guidance of his widow, works to foster the arts in the Southwest.

Santa Fe. Came to Territorial New Mexico as a teenager in 1858. Author, as edited by David A. Remley, of Adios Nuevo Mexico: The Santa Fe Journal of John Watts in 1859.

(1910-1997) Influential member of the Navajo Nation, noted for work to improve health care. Daughter of Navajo leader Chee Dodge. Second woman to be elected to Tribal Council, in the 1950s. Numerous awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Navajo Medal of Honor. 2000 inductee into the National Woman's Hall of Fame. Attended the Indian School in Albuquerque, honorary degree from UNM. Hosted a Navajo-language radio show out of Gallup. Author of articles for periodicals including The American Journal of Nursing.

Local historian. Author of Homesteads to Boomtown : a pictorial history of Farmington, New Mexico, and surrounding area and Aztec for the Images of America series.

PhD. in English with an emphasis in postcolonial literature, on teaching faculty at UNM. Articles in scholarly journals including Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics. Author of Interconnections: Essays on Music, Art, Literature, and Gender and Women and Contemporary World Literature: Power, Fragmentation, and Metaphor and Words and Music: Camus, Beckett, Cage, Gould . Co-editor, with UNM professor Feroza Jussawalla, of Emerging South Asian Women Writers: Essays and Interviews.

Santa Fe. Paleoanthropologist and science educator. Ph.D. in Physical Anthropology from UNM. Writes on the evolution of the human brain. Author of Children of Time : evolution and the human story and The Voyage of the Beetle : a journey around the world with Charles Darwin and the search for the solution to the mystery of mysteries, as narrated by Rosie, an articulate beetle.

Ph.D. in History from UNM. Author of A Woman in the Great Outdoors : adventures in the National Park Service about her experiences as a Park Ranger, and Yukon: The Last Frontier.

(1940-2010) Degrees from UNM; longtime professor at Southern Methodist University. Had a home in Gallup. Author of numerous works about the history of the Southwest including On the Edge of Empire : the Taos hacienda of los Martínez and The Spanish Frontier in North America.

Santa Fe. Longtime journalist with the Santa Fe New Mexican. Author of Architecture Santa Fe: a guidebook.

Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UNM. Author / editor of many works, including Brothers of light, brothers of blood : the Penitentes of the Southwest ; The Lore of New Mexico (with Peter White); and Alluring New Mexico : engineered enchantment, 1821-2001. Recipient of the State Historian's Award for Excellence in New Mexico Heritage Scholarship.

Alamogordo-born educator. Author of several historical romance and mystery novels set in the Southwest, including Sonora Wind, which was a New Mexico Book Award winner for 2010.

AKA: Jerry Weinberg. Books, primarily available electronically, on learning, problem solving, and writing, as well as novels.

Santa Fe. Wrote gardening columns for the Santa Fe Reporter and the Santa Fe New Mexican. Author of Growing Food in the High Desert Country.

Co-founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation. Author of When Christians Break Bad: Letters from the Insane, Inane, and Profane.

Las Cruces. Wildlife biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; has acted as regional biologist for the Southwest Regional office in Albuquerque. MS degree in wildlife ecology from the University of Arizona. Co-author, with Harley Shaw, of Twelve hundred miles by horse and burro : J. Stokely Ligon and New Mexico's first breeding bird survey.

Attorney. Has served as an officer in numerous organizations including as chairman of the Albuquerque Economic Forum and president of the New Mexico State Bar Association. Contributor to New Mexico 2050.

Santa Fe. Poet, essayist, journalist, performance artist. Poetry, fiction, essays, and news reports in numerous publications including the Washington Post and the Huffington Post. Author of the poetry chapbook Life's Prisoners. Featured in Santa Fe Noir.

Espanola. Mixed-media artist, studied petroglyphs on her property near Espanola then donated the land to the Archaeological Conservancy. In 2005 received a Conservation and Preservation Award from the American Rock Art Research Association. Author of the book about her researches: Life on the Rocks : One woman's adventures in petroglyph preservation.

Zuni Pueblo. Paywright, performer, and visual artist. Founding director of Idiwanan An Chawe (Children of the Middle Place), the first Zuni language theater. Co-editor of Journeys Home: Revealing a Zuni-Appalachia Collaboration.

Santa Fe. International Coach Federation Master Certified Coach specializing in transformative change. Founding Partner of the leadership development organization EQUUS. Author of Flying Lead Change: 56 Million Years of Wisdom for Leading and Living.

Santa Fe. Author and conscious channel. Author of Diving Deep: Into One Life Awareness.

Santa Fe. Graduate work at UNM. Poet, storyteller. Fine artist noted for "hyper-realistic" paintings often with dream themes. Taught at Santa Fe High School and Santa Fe Prep; Artist-in-School, teaching at the NM State Penitentiary and Springer Boys School. Co-author of Jerry West: The Alchemy of Memory.

Santa Fe. Degrees in Genetics and Integrative Humanities. Author of the memoir Rootlines.

Taos writing teacher and author of two mystery series: the Left-Handed Policeman series set in Hollywood, and the Howard Moon Deer series about a Native American detective working around "San Geronimo" New Mexico. Also wrote the 1969 counter-culture novel The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart, which was made into a movie of the same title.

Author of a book of poetry, My Mother’s Gentle Unbecoming: The Absentings of Alzheimer’s.

Taos. Entrepeneur and journalist. Teacher at UNM-Taos. Publisher of the monthly journal Horse Fly. Editor of The Chronicles of Tio Zuco / The Barbarian Dialects: Weird Tales of Crime and Humor and Taos Portraits: Photos by Paul O'Connor. Author of Gringo Lessons: Twenty Years of Terror in Taos.

Alamogordo native. Essays in many literary journals including The Missouri Review. Writer of features for online publications including Buzzfeed and Harper's Magazine. Author of Acid West : Essays which has sections on the Roswell UFO Festival, Spaceport New Mexico, and the Alamogordo Landfill Atari Dig among other subjects.

Albuquerque. Author of Young Adult novels including Transient, slated to be developed into a movie, and the Max and the Multiverse series.

(1878-1958) Anthropologist, philanthropist. Born into the Cabot family of Boston. Traveled extensively, spending time around the Four Corners region. Owned a ranch in Alcalde. Befriended Navajo artist and medicine man Hosteen Klah; together they worked to record and preserve Navajo religious practices. Collected Navajo art, especially sand paintings, and wrote articles on the subject. With Klah in 1937 established the House of Navajo Religion in Santa Fe, later named the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial Art and the basis for the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian. Served as director of the Museum until her death, writing works on Navajo ceremonials which were distributed through the Museum. Co-author with Klah of Navajo Creation Myth - the Story of the Emergence "as recorded by Mary C. Wheelwright". Author of her autobiography, not published during her lifetime, Journey Toward Understanding.

Albuquerque. Co-editor, with husband Peter White, of Along the Rio Grande : cowboy Jack Thorp's New Mexico

Professor at UNM teaching in English and American Studies; director of the New Mexico Musical Heritage Project. Writes on early American literature, technical writing, and NM folklore. Co-author / editor of numerous works, including The Lore of New Mexico (with Marta Weigle) and Along the Rio Grande : cowboy Jack Thorp's New Mexico (with Mary Ann White).

South Central New Mexico.Treasure hunter, historian. Author / co-author of several collections of treasure tales and folklore from New Mexico including Tales of the Caballos and More Treasure Stories and Folklore of the Caballo Mountains and True Treasure Stories of the Southwest. Author of several adventure novels involving treasure in New Mexico including The Pancho Villa Treasure of the Guadalupe Mountains . Author of a first-contact science fiction novel set in New Mexico, Reaching for the Stars.

Albuquerque. Author of Notes from the Other Side of the Mountain : a novel about a veteran returning home to a New Mexico mountain village from the Vietnam War.

Northern New Mexico. Author of several works including Let Nothing Be Lost.

Albuquerque. Master's in Geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Regional planner involved with public and tribal projects throughout the Southwest including developing state and municipal parks. Writer of articles on historical and outdoor topics for periodicals including New Mexico magazine and The New Mexico Historical Review. Author, with photographs by William Stone, of New Mexico Then & Now: Contemporary Rephotography.

Owner of a fishing shop in Albuquerque, builder of custom fishing rods. Contributor to Fly Fishing in Northern New Mexico.

Jemez Springs. Co-author, with husband Robert Borden, of Jemez Springs for the Images of America series.

Native New Mexican. Contributor to Fly Fishing in Northern New Mexico.

Landscape contractor in Santa Fe. Photographer. Contributor to Fly Fishing in Northern New Mexico.

Santa Fe. Longtime teacher. Essays in numerous publications including Newsweek; longtime columnist for the Santa Fe Reporter. Author of the Young Adult novel Nickel and Daddy Needs a Drink: An Irreverent Look at Parenting from a Dad Who Truly Loves His Kids-- Even When They're Driving Him Nuts.

Northern New Mexico. Master’s in computer science and electrical engineering from UNM; longterm with Los Alamos National Laboratory. Author of the Mogi Franklin Mysteries, Southwest-based mysteries for middle-grade children.

Albuquerque. Author of the science fiction Chesan Legacy series.

(1913-2008). Roswell native. Inducted into the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame as a "Penwoman of Western Lore". Author of over 100 published articles of regional history. Co-author of several books on history, including Treasures of History III : Southeast New Mexico People, Places, and Events.

Santa Fe. Bodywork practitioner, director / owner of a book marketing service. Degree in Theater Performance & Creative Writing. Vice president of the New Mexico Book Association and Poetry Center of New Mexico. Co-editor, with Victor de Suvero, of Saludos! : poemas de Nuevo Mexico = poems of New Mexico.

(1940-2022) PhD in Geography; 30 years an instructor at UNM. Numerous professional publications including The Homestead Geography Project, audio interviews with New Mexico homesteaders. Co-editor of New Mexico in Maps.

Aerial photographer, including time spent as an Air Force flight test photographer. Extensive experience on flight ranges over Utah and New Mexico. Co-author, with Lance Grace, of Golden Arms, AKA Test Pilots.

Santa Fe. Educator, author of many popular computer-related books including The Non-Designer's Design Book : Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice and The Little Mac Book. Founder of the International Shakespeare Center Santa Fe. Author of Sweet Swan of Avon: Did a Woman Write Shakespeare?.

(1908-2006) John Stewart Williamson. Also wrote as Will Stewart, and Nils O. Sonderlund. Came to New Mexico at the age of 7 in a horse-drawn wagon with his homesteading family, wrote science fiction until shortly before his death at 98. Known for many works that influenced later writers. Credited with coining the terms "genetic engineering" and "terraforming". Many awards, including being named a Grand Master of Science Fiction in 1998. Teacher at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, the library of which houses the Jack Williamson Special Collection, one of the finer collections of science fiction materials in the world. An annual event discussing science fiction, The Williamson Lectureship series, is hosted by ENMU.

Raised in Pueblo Pintado. Served on the faculty at the UNM since 1971. Has written widely on Navajo language and culture. Co-author of Weaving a World : textiles and the Navajo way of seeing.

Albuquerque. Previously served as journalist and private investigator. Degree in psychology. Practicing psychotherapist and astrologer. Author of The Menagerie: Passion, Power, and Poison in the Court of the Sun King .

Professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico. Archaeologist specializing in the prehistoric Southwest and the transition from foraging to agriculture. Noted excavations include Bat Cave and Pueblo Bonito. Author of many articles on Chacoan Culture. Author / co-author of several books including The Late Archaic Across the Borderlands: From Foraging to Farming and Early prehistoric agriculture in the American Southwest.

(1932-2010) Albuquerque author, co-founder (with wife Adela Amador) of Amador Press. Satirist, wrote works of fiction, social commentary and philosophy. Taught Bible as History at Albuquerque Academy and Sandia Preparatory School. Served as Vice-President and Program Chairman for the Humanist Society of New Mexico. Noted works: Duke City Tales and A World for the Meek : a fantasy novel.

Silver City. Writer, historian and educator. Graduate of Western New Mexico University where he teaches American History. Author of Death in the Black Patch and No Place That Far.

Professor of Cultural Landscape Studies at UNM; founding director of the Historic Preservation and Regionalism Program. Writes on architecture, tourism, reurbanization, the politics of culture in the Southwest, and cultural landscape studies. Author / co-author/ editor of several works including Facing Southwest : the life & houses of John Gaw Meem and The Myth of Santa Fe : creating a modern regional tradition and The Plazas of New Mexico.

Grew up on a ranch in New Mexico; member of the Dawson ranching family. Author of John Barkley Dawson : pioneer, cattleman, rancher.

Author of the Defense Force series, the first book of which is The Triangle.

Lived in Santa Fe; wrote for the Santa Fe New Mexican and The Santa Fe Reporter. Resident of Albuquerque area. Author of several books including Santa Fe, City of Refuge: An Improbable Memoir of the Counterculture and Hiking New Mexico's Chaco Canyon. Author of the mystery series about Santa Fe Detective Fernando Lopez.

Los Alamos. Co-editor, with Charlotte Serber, of Standing By and Making Do : women of wartime Los Alamos.

Silver City. Writer-in-residence at Western New Mexico University. Author of the novel Damnificados which won a 2016 New Mexico Book Award among other recognition. Author of several award-winning books about language.

(1928-2009) Teacher; master's degree from UNM and was on the faculty of New Mexico State University where he was also NMSU's poet-in-residence. Served as Poet Laureate of Las Cruces. Named as a Knight of Mark Twain for his “outstanding contribution to American literature". Author of over 40 volumes of poetry, mostly involving the Southwest, one of which, Graves Registry, was nominated for a National Book Award.

Albuquerque. Retired elementary school teacher. Author of the Abi Wunder mystery series for children.

Albuquerque. Former Director of the University of New Mexico Press. Contributor to Max Evans & a few friends: the 90th birthday book.

Pen name of Roswell author Alice Duncan. Historical fiction and love stories, including Sweet Charity and Spirit of Love.

Professor of History at New Mexico Tech. Past president of the Historical Society of New Mexico; researches New Mexico, Socorro, and railroad history. Member of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Commission. Author / co-author / editor of several works including Saving the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad and The Baldwins : tall tales and true.

AKA: Valerie Plame, Valerie Wilson, Valerie Elise Plame Wilson. Santa Fe. Former CIA Operations Officer; author of her memoirs, Fair Game and political thrillers (with Sarah Lovett), Blowback and Burned.

Santa Fe. Art historian, author, and independent curator. Editor / contributor to several works about New Mexico art, including Mabel Dodge Luhan & company : American moderns and the West and To Form From Air : music and the art of Raymond Jonson.

Writer, educator, and motivational speaker from the Southern Ute, Duckwater Shoshone, and Pyramid Lake Paiute Nations. Author of several collections of poetry including Words Like Love and Why Storms Are Named After People and Bullets Remain Nameless.

Albuquerque. Bachelor’s degree in English and Latin and a master’s degree in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies UNM. Science fiction and fantasy enthusiast. Author of the fantasy themed cookbooks, Cooking for Halflings & Monsters: 111 Comfy, Cozy Recipes for Fantasy-Loving Souls and A Year of Comfy, Cozy Soups, Stews, and Chilis: Cooking for Halflings & Monsters, Volume 2.

Part-time resident of Taos. Former criminal defense attorney. Political activist. Author of The Furthest City Light and Her Kind of Case, the first book in the planned Lee Isaacs, Esq. mystery series.

AKA: L. Thomas Winfree Jr., L.T. Winfree. Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice at New Mexico State University. Numerous articles in scholarly journals. Co-author (some with fellow NMSU professor G. Larry Mays) of several textbooks including Mental Health and Criminal Justice and Introduction to Criminal Justice: The Essentials.

Albuquerque. Graduate of St. Pius X High School, attended UNM, worked for the City of Albuquerque; degree in accounting from CNM. Has taught classes in genealogy. Author of several works on genealogy, including compiler and editor on Stories of Early Albuquerque - as told in the Albuquerque Genealogical Society Quarterly.

(1936-2002) Born in Dawson, lived in Santa Fe. Noted Latin America scholar; professor emeritus of history at Stanford University. Co-founder of the North American Institute in Santa Fe. Author of several books about South America. Son of the Headmaster of the Los Alamos Ranch School; co-author (with Linda Harvey Aldrich) of Los Alamos : the Ranch School years, 1917-1943.

Santa Fe. Cardiologist. Author of the historical novels Cannibal Plateau and In the Moro: Disaster in the San Juans.

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

Albuquerque. Professor emeritus of English at UNM. Author of several works of literary criticism including Ezra Pound and Senator Bronson Cutting : a political correspondence, 1930-1935 and George Eliot and the Visual Arts.

Founder of the New Mexico Art History Conference, former curator of UNM's Harwood Museum of Art in Taos. Curator of the Seton Legacy Project. Author / co-author of several works including The Taos Artists : a historical narrative and biographical dictionary and Modernists in Taos : from Dasburg to Martin.

Grew up on a ranch in New Mexico. Served as NM Secretary of Agriculture. Contributor to Max Evans & a few friends: the 90th birthday book.

Aassociate professor in the art education program at the University of New Mexico. Author of Through a narrow window : Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and her Terezín students which won the Zia Award for Outstanding Nonfiction (coffee table book category) from New Mexico Press Women.

Founder and Executive Director of the Museum of the American Military Family & Learning Center in Tijeras. Leads the East Mountain Veteran/Family Collaborative. Freelance reporter. Co-editor of several works including Shout: Sharing Our Truth: Writings of LGBT veterans and family members of the US Military Services and The Home Front Hearth: Memories & Recipes from Military Families Around the World.

Santa Fe; third-generation New Mexican. Writer of articles for area periodicals including New Mexico Magazine. Author of the novel Brujo : seduced by evil and Christmas Celebration: Santa Fe Traditions, Foods & Crafts.

AKA: Margaret Ann Wood. Santa Fe. Author of Native American fashion : modern adaptations of traditional designs and A Painter's Kitchen : recipes from the kitchen of Georgia O'Keeffe and Remembering Miss O'Keeffe: stories from Abiquiu.

(1936-2013) Santa Fe / Eldorado. Photographer and writer. Author of 9 books of photographs, 9 volumes of poetry, and works of children's fiction and adult fiction, including The girl who loved coyotes : stories of the Southwest and Many winters; prose and poetry of the Pueblos. Her final work, The Soledad Crucifixion, was the winner of the 2013 Zia Award from New Mexico Press Women.

Albuquerque. Graduate of the FBI Citizens' Academy. Served as administrator in hospitals and communications networks, and president of her own computer company. Author of the mysteries about manuscript editor Harrie McKinsey, set in Albuquerque.

Ph.D in History from UNM. Writer of articles on Albuquerque history for various publications. Author of The Postwar Transformation of Albuquerque, New Mexico 1945-1972.

Divides her time between Taos and New Orleans. Novels: Arroyo (2001), Wrecker (2010).

(1920-2008) Professor Emeritus of Sociology at UNM. Co-author / co-editor of several works including Santa Fe : a modern history, 1880-1990 and Minorities and Politics.

Southern New Mexico. Author of several novels / novelettes including A New Mexico Ghost Story and Tularosa Reckoning: New Mexico Tales of Daring.

Albuquerque author of I Still Believe : mental illness and suicide in light of the Christian faith, about dealing with her son's suicide.

Writer of articles about the Southwest for national magazines. Had a longtime column in New Mexico Magazine, "Trip of the Month". Author of several books about New Mexico including 101 Men and Women of New Mexico : 101 men and 101 women who contributed to New Mexico's history and Ghost Towns and How to Get to Them and 101 Trips in the Land of Enchantment.

Albuquerque. Author of the Young Adult science fiction / fantasy novel Katy Cooper in the Thunder Pit.

Santa Fe home designer and renovator. Member of the Historic Design Review Board. Co-author, with Christine Mather, of Santa Fe Houses and Santa Fe Style.

Homes in Florida, Maine, and New Mexico. First book, Chiefs, won the Edgar Award. Bestselling author of several popular mystery series including the Stone Barrington series, the Holly Barker series, and the series about Santa Fe defense lawyer Ed Eagle.

Albuquerque. Freelance writer, journalist, and photographer. Longtime instructor at Central New Mexico Community College. Author of This Fleeting World: Selected Poetry and Photography 1984-2020, which includes material on Spain, Mexico, and New Mexico.

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

Silver City. Author of Silver City Roils.

Santa Fe. Author, artist, art teacher, and art therapist. Former president of the Santa Fe Opera Guild. Author of the bilingual children's book The Adventures of Santa Fe Sam - Las Aventuras de Santa Fe Sam and Sedona's Search.

Cultural historian, guest curator at several museums. Author / editor of several works on Hispanic and Native American culture and crafts in New Mexico, including Weaving & Colcha from the Hispanic Southwest; Furniture from the Hispanic Southwest; and Images of penance, images of mercy : southwestern santos in the late nineteenth century.

(1926-?) Zuni Pueblo. Attended Albuquerque Indian School; earned a Bronze Star in WWII and participated in the execution of SS guards at Dachau. Studied at UNM. Returned to Zuni, where he was elected to the tribal council. Author of A Zuni Life : A Pueblo Indian in Two Worlds.

(1877-1962) Albuquerque. Born in Illinois; came to New Mexico with tuberculosis in 1904 expecting to stay "a few weeks" but remained for the rest of his life. Helped found the First Methodist Church in Albuquerque, and was involved in the building of the Francisan Hotel. Served as chairman of the Bernalillo County Commission and as president of the New Mexico Medical Society, the Southwestern Medical Society, and the Kiwanis Club. Author of his autobiography, Rio Grande Medicine Man.