ALBUQUERQUE
AUTHORS
In Honor of
Albuquerque’s Tricentennial
8/22/2005
These are authors who either live or have lived in metropolitan Albuquerque, or who’ve written books based in metropolitan Albuquerque. Some of their works are not available through the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library system, but were included for completeness. Those titles are followed by an asterisk. Also, a few titles about Albuquerque, but with no personal author have been included, under the title’s name.
For further information on an author, please check your library’s catalog under SUBJECT using the person's last name. Because some titles have several call-numbers, please check the library's catalog for the specific location & status of the title you are seeking. The Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library's home page can be found at: www.cabq.gov/library
See also the ALBUQUERQUE FOR NOVEL LOVERS, NEW MEXICAN AUTHORS, NEW MEXICAN CHILDREN’S AUTHORS, NEW MEXICAN FICTION & THE NEW MEXICO INDEX bibliographies at this site.
ABBEY, EDWARD - environmental activist who lived briefly in Albuquerque, humorist, essayist of Abbey’s Road, Beyond the Wall, Confessions of a Barbarian, Desert Solitaire, Down the River, The Hidden Canyon: a River Journey, Journey Home: Some Words In Defense of the American West, One Life at a Time, Please, The Serpents of Paradise: a Reader, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness; poet of Earth Apples; he is also included in Southwest Stories: Tales From the Desert. He’s also the novelist of Monkey Wrench Gang (the quintessential eco-warrior novel, set partially in NM), but also known for his other novels, including Black Sun (a bittersweet love story between a forest ranger & a student), Brave Cowboy (not your traditional cowboy novel, set partially in Albuquerque), Fire on the Mountain (a novel based on the life of John Prather, the NM cattleman who fought governmental attempts to take his land & make it a part of the White Sands Missile Range), Fools Progress (Henry Holyoak Lightcap’s adventurous journey from Tucson through NM to West Virginia), Good News (a post-apocalyptic novel, set in NM) & Hayduke Lives (the sequel to Monkey Wrench Gang)
ABBEY, RITA DEANIN - UNM-educated sculptor, painter & poet; all of which are included in her Rio Grande Series
ABBOTT, WARD - Albuquerque native, poet, reviewer for ArtSpace & Back Door magazines, publisher, former editor of The Desert Review & bookseller. He’s written A Little Green Would Do Us All Good* & North*; he’s also included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 301+
ACHTENBERG, ANYA - Albuquerque award-winning novelist of a CD/novella: The Stories of Devil-Girl* & poet
ADAMS, CLINTON - Albuquerque
painter, lithographer, director emeritus of the Tamarind Institute, dean
emeritus of the UNM College of Fine Arts, editor of Second Impressions:
Modern Prints and Printmakers Reconsidered, & author of American
Lithographers, Crayonstone, & Printmaking in New Mexico,
1880-1990
ADAMS, ELEANOR B.- retired UNM Research Professor-at-Large, historian of Colonial Spanish America, former editor of the New Mexico Historical Review, winner of the Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities award, presented by the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities; & translator of among others, Missions of New Mexico, 1776. She is also included in Literary New Mexico
ADAMS, KENNETH M. - renowned Taos painter & author of Kenneth M. Adams, N.A., 1897-1966
ADAMS, MARY E.- teacher, editor at UNM Press, managing editor of the New Mexico Quarterly, journalist & essayist who is included in From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O’Keeffe as Icon
ADCOCK, LARRY - co-author of among others, The Social
& Economic Impact of Sandia National Laboratories on the State of New
Mexico FY 1989
AGOGINO, GEORGE A. - Chairman of the Anthropology Department, & Director of the Paleo-Indian Institute at ENMU, & co-author of Geochronology of Sandia Cave & Sandia Cave: a Study in Controversy
ALBERTS, DON E. - Rio Rancho author, Civil War in NM expert, military history professor, historian of the Bureau of Reclamation, former Kirtland Air Force Base historian & author of Balloons to Bombers: Aviation in Albuquerque, Battle of Glorieta: the Gettysburg of the West & Rebels On the Rio Grande
ALBERTS, LAURIE - formerly UNM,
now
ALBUQUERQUE AREA EXTENSION MASTER GARDENERS - authors of Down to Earth: a Gardener's
Guide to the Albuquerque Area
Albuquerque: Where the World Celebrates Ballooning - by Q13-KRQE TV; in association with Kodak Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
ALCALÁ, KATHLEEN - a visiting professor in the UNM English Department & novelist of the series: The Flower in the Skull, Spirits of the Ordinary: a Tale of Casas Grandes & Treasures in Heaven
ALLEN, HUBERT - Albuquerque
biostatistician & author of The Petroglyph Calendar: an Archaeoastronomy
Adventure
ALLEN, MICHELLE MILLER - former Albuquerque, now Jemez Springs novelist of Journey From the Keep of Bones, an interweaving of the stories of four characters on spiritual quests which take place alternately in ancient meso-America & contemporary NM. She also writes under the name, MICHELLE MILLER
ALLEN, TERESA R. - Missouri-raised, now Albuquerque home care clinical social worker, poet & children’s author of Laura, the Bichon Frise, My New Home, an endearing story about how Laura is rescued & becomes a member of a new family. She overcomes fears & learns to trust her new owners
ALVARADO, LINDA - Albuquerque-born,
construction company owner, the 1st Latina owner of a baseball team, the
Colorado Rockies & honoree inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame,
in 2003; she’s included in It’s All in the Frijoles.
AMADOR, ADELA - Placitas-born author of a New Mexico Magazine food & memories column, a cookbook, Twelve Gifts: Recipes From a Southwest Kitchen; short story author of Undercurrents: New Mexico Stories - Then and Now, & Albuquerque businesswoman, who is also included in Cuentos Chicanos (1980 ed.)
ANAYA, RUDOLFO - Pastura-raised,
Albuquerque folklorist, playwright, poet, novelist, & essayist, whose most
famous novel is probably Bless Me Ultima. He has also written Alburquerque, Heart of Aztlan (set in
Albuquerque), The Legend of La Llorona, Serafina’s Stories, The
Silence of the Llano: Short Stories & Tortuga (set in Truth or
Consequences). His newest novels are a mystery series with Sonny Baca, a
small-time
ANDERSON, CLINTON P. - influential NM Senator & author of his autobiography, Outsider in the Senate
ANDERSON, GABRIELLA - Albuquerque president of the Land of Enchantment Romance Authors & author of fast paced, entertaining & satisfying romances: A Matter of Convenience (set in Boston), the 1st in the Destiny Coin series & A Matter of Honor, the 3rd in the series. She also wrote Ever Yours, a Beauty & the Beast romance, set in 19th century Devon, England
ANDREWS, DR. ARLAN, SR - manager of Advanced Manufacturing Initiatives at Sandia National Laboratory & author of science fiction short stories & science magazine articles & who’s included in How to Save the World, edited by Charles Sheffield
ANDRYA - pen name of Albuquerque author Gladys McNutt, who wrote, What's An Angel*
ANELLA, ANTHONY - Albuquerque architect & co-author with MARK C. CHILDS, of Never Say Goodbye: the Albuquerque Rephotograhic Survey Project & co-author of Saving the Ranch: Conservation Easement Design in the American West*
ANTHONY, ALEXANDER E., JR. -
Albuquerque director of the Adobe Galley & author who contributed to Kachinas:
Spirit Beings of the Hopi
ANTONACCI, DR. ROBERT J. - Albuquerque author of several young adult sports technique books, including Baseball for Young Champions, Football for Young Champions & Tennis for Young Champions
ARAGON, CLYDE JAMES - Albuquerque-born-&-raised author of The PC Affair, a funny detective novel set in Silicon Valley, & Tales of Delight and Shame, a comic collection of short stories
ARAGÓN Y ULIBARRÍ, DANIEL - Albuquerque educational psychologist, researcher & novelist of an 1800's NM political novel about the conflict between the Hispanics & the Americans who robbed them of their land grants: Devil’s Hatband
ARANDA, CHARLES - Albuquerque collector of Hispanic folklore & Penitente material: Dichos Huevos, Humor ‘n’ Politics & New Mexico Folklore From the Spanish
ARCINIEGA, TOMAS A. - UNM-educated Dean of the School of Education at the San Diego State University & author of Chicanos and Native Americans & Preparing Teachers of Mexican Americans
ARMAS, JOSÉ - publisher of Pajarito Publications, managing editor of Colores magazine, Albuquerque Journal columnist, who is included in Cuentos Chicanos (1980 ed.)
ARMIJO, ROSEMARY GALLEGOS - Albuquerque born & raised, now Valencia, NM author of La Hija de Juan Gallegos, an Apron of Many Colors*, a collection of narratives, poetry, watercolors & photography
ARMSTRONG, RUTH - acclaimed Corrales historian & author of The Chases of Cimarron: Birth of the Cattle Industry in Cimarron County, 1867-1900, Cycle of Seasons in Corrales, Enchanted Trails, New Mexico, From Arrowhead to Atom & Promised Land: a History of the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant. She also wrote the text for Enchanted Land, New Mexico, with pictures by HARVEY CAPLIN. She’s also included in Bicentennial ‘76 - Albuquerque Remembers.
ARMY, MARY MONTANO - Albuquerque journalist, critic, arts administrator for Opera Southwest & Viva Zarzuela! & author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
ARNHOLZ, JIM see BELSHAW, JIM
ARQUETTE, KERRY - Albuquerque-raised daughter of LOIS DUNCAN, has written for magazines & Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul. Her books for children are Daddy Promises* & What Did You Do Today?. She lives with her family in Arvada, Colorado
ARRIGONI, RENA - Albuquerque mother, who with her husband Al, created Casa Angelica: Arlene’s Legacy, the story of NM’s 1st private home for children with severe disabilities, after the death of their daughter
ARRITT, SUSAN - Albuquerque author of Living Earth Book of Deserts, The Allure of Turquoise, & former writer for the U.N. International Fund for Agricultural Development
AUSHERMAN, STEPHEN - Albuquerque columnist for The Alibi & novelist of an engaging & disturbing book, Typical Pigs, which won the Lumina 2002 American Writers Contest & was a finalist for the 2001 Peter Taylor Prize. It's set in an Albuquerque group home for adults with severe disabilities & has been compared to Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. He’s also written Restless Tribes: Travel Stories, 1989-2003
AUSTIN, GEORGE S. - Socorro senior industrial minerals geologist for the NM Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources & author of Albuquerque Downtown: From a Geologic Point of View - a Walking Tour of the City Center
AUSTIN-NIELL, LEOLA - Moriarty novelist of a NM rodeo romance: To Dance With a Dream Catcher
AVILA, ELENA - Rio Rancho
psychiatric nurse specialist, curandera, author of Woman Who Glows in the
Dark & who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
AWALT, BARBE - Los Ranchos public relations expert, photographer & co-author of Charlie Carrillo: Tradition & Soul/Tradición y Alma, photographer of Faces of Faith/Rostros de Fe, Nicholas Herrera: Visiones de mi Corazón, Our Saints Among Us = Nuestros Santos Entre Nosotros: 400 Years of New Mexican Devotional Art, The Regis Santos: Thirty Years of Collecting & co-editor of Seeds of Struggle/Harvest of Faith
BACA, ANA - Albuquerque's Bueno Foods author of the beautiful children's picture books, Benito’s Bizcochitos, & Chiles for Benito, based partly on the stories her grandmother told her & The Seasons: a Cookbook for Life*
BACA, JIMMY SANTIAGO - Santa Fe-born, now Albuquerque South Valley American Book Award-winning poet, teacher, essayist, playwright & author of Black Mesa Poems, C-Train (Dream Boy's Story) & Thirteen Mexicans, Healing Earthquakes: a Love Story In Poems, Immigrants In Our Own Land, Martin; & Meditation on the South Valley, A Place to Stand: the Making of a Poet, Set This Book On Fire, What’s Happening, Winter Poems Along the Rio Grande & Working In the Dark. He is also included in Before Columbus Foundation Poetry Anthology, Currents From the Dancing River, Floating Borderlands, Getting Over the Color Green: Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest, In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 197+, Multicultural Southwest: a Reader, New American Poets of the '90s, & Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets
BAILEY, BETH L. - award-winning acting chair of the UNM American Studies Program, wife of DAVID FARBER, & author of The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s & From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America
BAIRSTOW, LINDA - Albuquerque author of a parenting book: How to Stop Your Toddler From Driving You Crazy
BAKER, LAURA - Albuquerque
co-owner of Tanner Chaney Galleries in Old Town & author of a tale of
destiny & reconciliation between a Hopi woman & an FBI agent, in Broken
in Two; a romantic detective mystery with a psychic Navajo FBI agent, in Legend;
a romance set in Utah, between a former Anasazi artifact thief & a BLM
ranger, in Raven & a romance/time travel novel, set in Canyon de
Chelly, Stargazer
BAKER, LOUIS - former Albuquerque actor, Vortex board member, Screen Actors Guild member, who appeared in films such as Speechless & Natural Born Killers, & author of Parallel Programming*, for professional programmers & students
BALASSI, WILLIAM - UNM lecturer & co-editor of This Is About Vision
BALCH, ROYCE JANE - author of Jacob Korber, Early Businessman of Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1811- 1921
BALCOMB, KENNETH C. - Albuquerque engineer who worked for the Soil Conservation Service for many years, & who wrote: A Boy's Albuquerque & Red River Hill
BALDWIN, LAUREN M. - Albuquerque part-time lawyer & knitter who is included in KnitLit: Sweaters & Their Stories…& Other Writing About Knitting
BALDWIN, LOUIS - Sandia National
Laboratories writer, supervisor, English professor & author of Intruders Within:
Pueblo Resistance to Spanish Rule & the Revolt of 1680, about the Pueblo
Revolt
BALL, DURWOOD - editor of the New Mexico Historical Review, associate professor of history at UNM & author of Army Regulars on the Western Frontier, 1848-1861
BALLENGER, MARY LOU - Albuquerque hospital dietitian, teacher & poet who is included in Turquoise Land
BANTISTA, R.M. - Albuquerque poet & short story author, some of whose work can be found in Remembered Earth: an Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature
BARBER, DAVID -
Corpus Christi, Texas-born, government worker/poet who retired in
Albuquerque. He served his country in
the Air Force for 16 years. By day, he’s
a mild-mannered industrial hygienist, but by night, he writes poetry &
short stories. He’s been published in
several internet literary magazines
BARNEY, ROBERT KNIGHT - author of Turmoil
& Triumph: a Narrative History of Intercollegiate Athletics at the
University of New Mexico & its Implication in the Social History of the
City of Albuquerque & the State & Territory of New Mexico, 1889-1950
BARNHART, JAN DODSON - Albuquerque co-author of Hispanic Heroes, associate director of University of New Mexico's Center for Southwest Research & contributor to The Pueblo Revival Architecture of John Gaw Meem
BARRETT, ELINORE M. - professor emeritus of geography at UNM & the author of The Mexican Colonial Copper Industry & Conquest & Catastrophe: Changing Rio Grande Pueblo Settlement Patterns in the Sixteenth & Seventeenth Centuries
BARRON, REX - Albuquerque painter, guitar player, film animator & illustrator of the children’s stories, Eggbert, the Slightly Cracked Egg & Irma the Flying Bowling Ball. He also wrote & illustrated the children’s nonfiction book, Showdown at the Food Pyramid
BARROW, THOMAS - UNM teacher, National Endowment Fellowship winner, & photographer of the Essential Landscape: the New Mexico Photographic Survey. See also Inventories and Transformations
BARRY, TOM - Albuquerque
grass-roots & Latin American activist, a founder of the Resource Center,
& author of Central America Fact Book & The Other Side of
Paradise, & editor of Mexico, a Country Guide. He is also the co-author of the children’s Navajo story, Red Ribbons For Emma
BARTLETT, LEE - Albuquerque poet, UNM English Dept. faculty member & author of many critical books on poetry, including The Sun Is But a Morning Star: Studies in West Coast Poetry and Poetics. He is also included in & co-edited In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 258+
BASON, LILLIAN -
BASS, CLARENCE - Albuquerque body-builder, teacher & author of Lean Advantage & Ripped
BASSO, KEITH - Albuquerque
anthropology professor at UNM & author of the 1996 Western States Book
Award for Nonfiction: Wisdom Sits in Places, Landscape and Language Among
the Western Apache; Cibecue Apache, & Portraits of "The
Whiteman": Linguistic Play and Cultural Symbols Among the Western Apache
& Western Apache Raiding and Warfare
BATCHEN, GEOFFREY - UNM photography professor & author of Burning With Desire: the Conception of Photography*
BATCHEN, LOU SAGE - Placitas author of Las Placitas: Historical Facts & Legends, based on her recollections, compiled originally in the 1930s under a WPA Writer's Project Grant
BATON, MAISHA - Albuquerque award-winning playwright, poet existential psychologist, former UNM teacher & author of a poetry collection: Dancing Shadows*, collector & editor of Do Remember Me: Conversations With New Mexico's Black History (an audio book), Do Remember Me 2 Black Seniors of Albuquerque & Western New Mexico (a CD) & History of Blackdom, N.M. in the Context of the African American Post Civil War Colonization Movement. She is also included in History of Hope: the African American Experience in New Mexico & In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 246+
BAUER, PAUL W. - senior
geologist & associate director at the NM Bureau of Geology & Mineral
Resources in Socorro & contributor to many titles, including Albuquerque:
a Guide to Its Geology and Culture, 2003 ed.
BEASON, DOUG - Albuquerque Air Force major, physicist, director of the High Energy Plasma Laboratory at Kirtland AFB, techno-thriller author of Strike Eagle & co-author of Assemblers of Infinity, Ignition, Ill Wind (set partially in NM), & Virtual Destruction. He’s also included in How to Save the World & War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches
BEATH, MARY - long-time Albuquerque South Valley resident, award-winning illustrator, author of the ABC of the Biosphere*, poet of Refuge of Whirling Light*, & she is included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 318+
BEAVEN, JAY SCOTT - former Albuquerque journalist, three-time winner of Canada's most honored film critic award, & biographer of HELEN HARDIN: Changing Woman (filed in the catalogs under SCOTT, JAY)
BELSHAW, JIM - Albuquerque humorist, Albuquerque Journal columnist, author of Semi-Native (filed in the catalogs under ARNHOLZ) & co-author of Closing the Chart: a Dying Physician Examines Family, Faith & Medicine with STEVEN D. HSI & BETH CORBIN-HSI
BENKE, RICHARD - Albuquerque Associated Press reporter & author of Ghost Ocean, a deft, vivid mystery set in the remote Apache Wilderness of southwestern NM & northern Mexico, starring Bureau of Land Management ranger, Will Mann
BENNETT, IVEN - UNM Geography professor & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
BENNING, BARRY - Albuquerque novelist of The Unspoken Power of Rome*, about the origins of Christianity
BENTLEY, KAREN -
pseudonym of KAREN
TASCHEK, Albuquerque young adult novelist of Horse of Seven Moons,
set in 1880s southwestern NM, about a pinto owned by a young Apache man & a
fourteen year old Anglo girl at the same time, & author of a children’s
biography of The Unsers
BENTLEY, KAREN - Albuquerque
young adult novelist of Horse of Seven Moons, set in 1880s southwestern
NM, about a pinto owned by a young Apache man & a fourteen year old Anglo
girl at the same time, & author of a biography of The Unsers
BENTON, ALICE GILL - Albuquerque author of two poetry collections: Janus Had Two Faces & See the Earth New; she is also included in Sandscript p. 95, Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950 & Turquoise Land
BERBERICK, NANCY VARIAN - Albuquerque fantasy author of several books in the highly popular Dragonlance series, A Child of Elvish; & she is also included in A Dragon-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic, Earth, Air, Fire, Water & A Glory of Unicorns
BERGERON, KENNETH D. - Albuquerque physicist who worked at Sandia National Labs for 25 years, & author of Tritium on Ice: the Dangerous New Alliance of Nuclear Weapons & Nuclear Power, which won ForeWord Magazine's award for the best book published in 2002 in the field of political science
BERGTHOLD, LOIS - Albuquerque art director of the Chile Pepper magazine & co-author of Cody Coyote Cooks!
BERNALILLO HIGH SCHOOL SOUTHWEST HISTORY CLASS, 1974-75 - authors of Viva el Pasado: a History of the Bernalillo Area
BERRY, DAWN BRADLEY - Albuquerque civil rights lawyer, legal researcher & author of Equal Compensation for Women & The 50 Most Influential Women in Law
BERTHOLD, RICHARD - history professor at UNM, co-designer of Republic of Rome, a diplomacy game, & author of other books on the Classical world, including Rhodes In the Hellenistic Age*
BERTRAND, JEAN-MICHEL - author of Special Shape Rodeo: Kodak
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
BICE, RICHARD A. - NM archaeologist & co-author of The Albuquerque Archaeological Society's First Twenty-Five Years, 1966-1991, An Early Basketmaker Campsite: Report on Site AS-1, a Field Project of the Albuquerque Archaeological Society, & Prieta Vista; a Small Pueblo III Ruin in North-Central New Mexico; a Report of the Excavation of the AS-3 Site by the Albuquerque Archaeological Society in Cooperation with Eastern New Mexico University
BIEBEL, CHARLES D. - UNM associate professor of the American Studies Department & author of Making the Most of It: Public Works in Albuquerque During the Great Depression
BIEN, THOMAS & BEVERLY - Albuquerque authors of Finding
the Center Within: the Healing Way of Mindfulness Meditation & Mindful
Recovery: a Spiritual Path to Healing From Addiction. He is a
clinical psychologist & she is executive director of La Vida Felicidad, a
nonprofit agency that provides services to people with disabilities
BINFORD, LEWIS - UNM professor emeritus who pioneered the discipline, ethnoarchaeology, which involves studying living people to get insights into the record of past peoples; & author of many technical archaeological books. For further information, see Conversations with Lew Binford
BIRD, SARAH - former Albuquerque author of several very funny novels, including Alamo House: Women Without Men, Men Without Brains, Boyfriend School, Mommy Club, Virgin of the Rodeo & Yokota Officers' Club. See also CATES, TORY
BLAISDELL, GUS - former editor at UNM Press, a member of UNM’s faculty in Media Arts, ran the Living Batch Press & Drive He Said Books, & was a poet who is included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 253+
BLAKE, MICHAEL - former ENMU & UNM student, author of the screenplay & novel, Dances With Wolves, Holy Road (the sequel to Dances With Wolves), an Air Force novel, Airman Mortensen (set in NM), & a historical novel, Marching to Valhalla: a Novel of Custer's Last Days
BLANCHARD, NANETTE - East Mountain professional writer, recipe developer who has written for Food & Wine, Cooking Light, Vegetarian Times & Vegetarian Gourmet. She has also written 'Tis the Season: a Vegetarian Christmas Cookbook
BLISS, JOY V. - Albuquerque physician, lawyer, & co-author with her husband, G.L. DYBWAD, of James A. Michener: the Beginning Teacher and His Textbooks
BLITZ, STANLEY J. - Albuquerque author of Bandstand: the Untold Story*, about the origins of the popular 1950's & 60's TV dance show
BLOOM, CLARE CELIA - Albuquerque poet who is included in Earth Chant, Sanscript p.16 & Turquoise Land
BLOUIN, NICOLE - author of Mountain Biking Albuquerquee
BLUEHORSE, ELIZABETH - Gallup-area-born, now Albuquerque novelist of the Scottish novel, A View From the Hill & the native American novel, Grandfather’s Dream
BLUESTEIN, JANE - Albuquerque nationally known speaker on parenting; teacher, self-esteem expert, counselor, Ph.D., & author of Creating Emotionally Safe Schools; a Guide for Educators & Parents, Mentors, Masters, and Mrs. MacGregor: Stories of Teachers Making a Difference, Parents In a Pressure Cooker, Parents, Teens, and Boundaries: How to Draw the Line, & Rx - Handwriting
BOGGIO, SUE- Albuquerque co-novelist with MARE PEARL, of Sunlight & Shadow, a cross-cultural love story, set in NM. She is a UNM Health Center registered nurse & Mare is a UNM mental health technician. They have been friends for 40 years & have won numerous writing contests & awards together. They have been active members of the Southwest Writers Workshop since 1993
BONDS, PARRIS AFTON - Hobbs & Rio Rancho famous romance novelist of Blue Moon (a romance about a young journalist who interviewed Pancho Villa, during his incursions into NM), Dust Devil* (romance/ historical fiction), Made for Each Other*, Renegade Man* (set in Silver City), Run to Me* (a Navajo romance), That McKenna Woman* (set in Las Cruces), When the Heart Is Right* (a 1920's romance set in Taos, about a young tubercular woman who leaves her Washington father & husband to find her salvation among the intellectual community & a Taos Pueblo shaman) & Widow Woman* (set in Lordsburg)
BONNETTE, JEANNE - Albuquerque TV producer, author of Leaf Change; New and Selected Poems & Pueblo Poems, & is included in Earth Chant, Sandscript p. 84 & Turquoise Land
BONO, SAM - author of The National Atomic Museum: America's Museum Resource for Nuclear Science & History
BOON, DONALD J. - Albuquerque retired physician, poet & author of Coming of Coyote: a Southwestern Odyssey
BOSSI, KARL R. - Albuquerque Air
Force author of Just Call Me Moose! Growing Up
Italian in America*, from the streets of
BOSTROM, BONNIE S. - the Chief of Education for the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation & a member of the Alabama Band of Cherokee. She is currently a Doctoral Candidate in Leadership & Educational Administration from UNM, & a poet who collaborated with sculptor Joan Baliker, on The Wayshowers*, a spiritual handbook which delivers images of people such as Gandhi & Mother Teresa, along with companion pieces of poetry for each image
BOVERIE, PATRICIA - Associate Professor of
Organizational Learning & Instructional Technologies at UNM & co-author
of Transforming Work: the Five Keys to Achieving Trust, Commitment &
Passion in the Workplace
BRADLEY, DENISE - Albuquerque
author of several medical works, including Sweet Recovery & What
Does It Feel Like to Have Diabetes?
BRAGG, BEA - Albuquerque author
& playwright of "Held In Trust: the Story of Lt. Henry Ossian Flipper"*. She’s also the author of the children’s story, The Very First Thanksgiving, a
story about the Oñate Expedition to New Mexico
BRAND, REBECCA - Albuquerque author of the horror/romance novel, The Ruby Tear a vampire novel set in the NYC theater world. She also writes under the name: SUZY MCKEE CHARNAS
BREATHED, BERKE - wickedly
caustic cartoonist who won the Pulitzer Prize, his syndicated "Bloom
County" appeared in many newspapers, & who lived briefly in
Albuquerque. He's the author of Bloom County Babylon: Five Years of Basic
Naughtiness, Billy and the Boingers Bootleg, Classics of Western
Literature: Bloom County, 1986-1989, The Night of the Mary Kay Commandos
& 'Toons for Our Times: a Bloom County Book of Heavy Meadow Rump 'n Roll. He's
also the author of the children’s picture book, Goodnight Opus & the
holiday story, Red Ranger Came Calling: a Guaranteed True Christmas Story
(none set in NM)
BREEZE, CARLA - NM-born art-deco expert who spent many years in NYC, now, Albuquerque-based architectural photographer & author of American Art Deco: Modernistic Architecture & Regionalism & Pueblo Deco: the Art Deco Architecture of the Southwest
BREWER, STEVE - former Albuquerque
Journal feature writer & author of a funny mystery series about the
Albuquerque private eye, Bubba Mabry: Baby Face, Lonely Street, Witchy
Woman, Shaky Ground, Dirty Pool & Crazy Love.
Bubba is also included in The Last Noel with the novella, Sanity Clause (a paperback, filed in
Fiction under the title). Brewer is the
author of companion novels starring Albuquerque sportswriter & editor, Drew
Gavin, in End Run & Cheap Shot, & the stand-alone
mysteries, Boost (set in Albuquerque), Bullets (set partially in
Albuquerque) & Fool's Paradise.
He also has another book Trophy Husband: a Survival Guide to Working
at Home, a humorous collection of his weekly columns in the Albuquerque
Tribune
BREWSTER, SUSAN - Albuquerque
author of To Be an Anchor In the Storm: a Guide for Families and Friends of
Abused Women
BRILEY, ALICE - Albuquerque poet of the collection, From a Weaver’s Shuttle, who is included in Earth Chant, Sandscript p. 54, Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950 & Turquoise Land; & editor of Encore! Encore! a Selection of Poetry from Encore, a Quarterly of Verse & Poetic Arts
BRILEY, ELAINE - Albuquerque poet who is included in Sandscript p. 66 & Turquoise Land. She also writes under the name, GARCIA, ELAINE BRILEY
BRILEY, RON - Sandia Preparatory
School assistant headmaster, long-time professor of history, baseball historian
& author of Class at Bat, Gender on Deck & Race in the Hole: a
Line-Up of Essays on Twentieth Century Culture & America's Game
BRODY, J.J. - UNM Professor Emeritus in the Department of Art & Art History, former director of UNM’s Maxwell Museum, expert on Southwestern Native American pottery, winner of the Lifetime Achievement in the Humanities award, presented by the New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities; & author of Anasazi and Pueblo Painting, Mimbres Painted Pottery, Pueblo Indian Painting: Tradition and Modernism in New Mexico, 1900-1930 & To Touch the Past: the Painted Pottery of the Mimbres People; he is also included in Legacy: Southwest Indian Art at the School of American Research, New Light on Chaco Canyon & The Road to Aztlan: Art From a Mythic Homeland
BRONITSKY, GORDON - Albuquerque archaeologist & contributor to Collected Papers In Honor of Florence Hawley Ellis & Secrets of a City: Papers on Albuquerque Area Archaeology in Honor of Richard A. Bice
BROWN, MARY - Albuquerque author & mother of Little Point Guard: the Greg Brown Story, UNM’s 1994 WAC Player of the Year
BROWN, PAMELA - pseudonym of BONNY CELINE HOLDER, novelist of My Erotic Adventures with Billy the
Kid*
BROWNING, IBEN - Cedar Crest's climate & geology expert; & author of Climate and the Affairs of Men
BRUCE, HANK - Rio Rancho organizer of Garden Grow Away, a non-profit organization, which promotes the use of innovative gardening methods to combat hunger. The organization conducts research & promotes the use of alternative crops to address nutritional needs in many countries. He is also the author of Gardening Projects for Horticultural Therapy*, Garden Projects for the Classroom*, Gardening for the Senses*, Gardening Trivia* & Global Gardening*
BRUGGE, DAVID M. - Albuquerque anthropologist, staff curator for the Southwest Region of
the National Park Service & author
of A History of the Chaco Navajos, Hubbell Trading Post: National
Historic Site, The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute: an American Tragedy, Tsegai:
an Archeological Ethnohistory of the Chaco Region; co-edited Archeological
Surveys of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, co-edited & contributed to Navajo
Religion & Culture: Selected Views: Papers in Honor of Leland C. Wyman;
edited In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma
& New Light on Chaco Canyon; contributed to In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an
Archaeological Enigma & Native
Peoples of the Southwest: Negotiating Land, Water, & Ethnicities
BRYAN, HOWARD - long-time Albuquerque Tribune journalist, travel author, historian & author of Incredible Elfego Baca, Robbers, Rogues, and Ruffians, Tours For All Seasons, & Wildest of the Wild West
BRYAN, J.B. - North Valley Albuquerque painter, free-lance graphic designer, publisher of La Alameda Press, author of the poetry collection, How Can I Follow My Beautiful Dreams*, Lush in the Eddies*, Chlorophyl Way Lulu* & who is included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 376+ & XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience
BUCHANAN, WILLIAM J. - Albuquerque's award-winning novelist & nonfiction author, one of whose most popular books is A Shining Season, about the local teacher & coach, John Baker; while Running Toward the Light, is about George Mendoza, blind Las Cruces world-class runner. He’s also written an excellent young adult novel, set near Isleta Pueblo: Diablo, the Devil Steer
BULLIS, DON - Albuquerque special agent with the New Mexico Department of Public Safety’s Criminal Intelligence Section, author of New Mexico’s Finest: Peace Officers Killed in the Line of Duty, 99 New Mexicans... & a Few Other Folks: Ellos Pasaron Por Aqui (They Passed By Here), & novelist of Bloodville, a historical novel about the life, murder & investigation of Bud Rice, in Budville, between Laguna & Grants
BURBANK, JAMES C. - Albuquerque journalist, poet & author of Vanishing Lobo; some of his other work can be found in Spirit That Wants Me & Tarasque II
BURBANK, JIM - Albuquerque author of Retirement New Mexico
BUSKIRK, WINFRED - Albuquerque anthropologist & author of The Western Apache: Living With the Land Before 1950
BUTEL, JANE - Albuquerque home
economist, chef, teacher & author of many Southwestern cookbooks,
including: Chili Madness: a Passionate Cookbook, Fiestas for Four
Seasons: Southwest Entertaining, Hotter Than Hell, Jane Butel’s
Southwestern Kitchen & Woman’s Day Book of New Mexican Cooking
BYRNES, PATRICIA - Albuquerque
co-author of Southwestern Arts and Crafts Projects
C’DE BACA, JANET - Albuquerque
research scientist at the Behavioral Health Science Research Center of the
Southwest & co-author of Quantum Change: When Epiphanies & Sudden
Insights Transform Ordinary Lives
CADIEUX, CHARLES L. - Albuquerque editor, wildlife & outdoor life author of Coyotes, Predators and Survivors, Great RV Trips, & These Are the Endangered
CAIN, M.J. - Albuquerque
journalist & author of Near Horizons: a Weekender's Guide to Easy
Getaways from Albuquerque
CAJETE, GREGORY - Santa Clara Pueblo UNM professor of education who edited & contributed to The Institute of American Indian Arts* & A People’s Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living, & author of Igniting the Sparkle*, Look to the Mountain, & Native Science*. He’s the former chair of Cultural Studies & dean of the Center for Research & Cultural Exchange at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe
CALLENDER, JONATHAN F. - Albuquerque Director of the NM Museum of Natural History, co-author of Archaeology and History of Santa Fe Country, & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
CALVIN, ROSS - Clovis, then Albuquerque professor, Episcopalian priest & author of River of the Sun: Stories of the Storied Gila, & one of New Mexico's most respected books, The Sky Determines
CAMENSON, BLYTHE - Albuquerque author of Careers for History Buffs & Others Who Learn from the Past, Careers in Education, Great Jobs for Art Majors, Great Jobs for Liberal Arts Majors, Opportunities In High Tech Careers, Opportunities In Overseas Careers, Real People Working In Building & Construction, Real People Working In Education, Real People Working In Engineering & Your Novel Proposal: from Creation to Contract
CAMPA, ARTHUR LEÓN - NM folklorist, UNM professor & author of Hispanic Culture in the Southwest & Treasure of the Sangre de Cristos: Tales and Traditions of the Spanish Southwest
CAMPANOZZI, LOU - retired Rochester, NY Police Captain, then director of Special Investigations (Organized Crime, Intelligence) for the State of NM, then the Chief of Police at Sandia Pueblo, & author of Killing Cards, a mystery set in Rochester, NY, starring Lieutenant Mike (Ace) Amato, homicide detective for the Rochester Police Department, it's sequels, Ground Lions & Justice*
CAMPBELL, GLEN - former Albuquerque country-western musician & author of his autobiography, Rhinestone Cowboy
CAMPBELL, HARLEN - Albuquerque mystery author of Monkey On a Chain, which is set partially in Placitas
CAMPBELL, HERB - former Albuquerque resident & historical novelist of Bobcat the Comanche*
CAMPBELL, JOHN MARTIN "JACK" -
chair of UNM’s Anthropology Department, director of Maxwell Museum, Smithsonian
research associate, polar explorer, author & photographer of Few and Far
Between, Moments in the North American Desert & Prairie Schoolhouse
CAMPBELL, TYRONE - former Albuquerquean, expert on historical Navajo weaving & author of Historic Navajo Weaving & Navajo Pictorial Weaving
CANDELA, GREGORY LOUIS - UNM-Valencia professor of English, performance artist, folk musician & author of Surfing New Mexico*, a collection of poetry
CANDELARIA, MICHAEL - Roswell-born scholar, philosophy & religious studies professor, currently teaching in UNM's Honors Program, & at TVI. He is included in Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy: Forms, Agencies & Discourse
CAPLIN, HARVEY - renowned NM photographer & co-author with George Fitzpatrick of Albuquerque: 100 Years in Pictures, & photographer of Bell Ranch Wagon Work by Mattie Ellis & Mark Wood, & Enchanted Land, New Mexico, with text by RUTH ARMSTRONG.
CAPUTI, JANE - UNM's American Studies teacher & author of Gossips, Gorgons & Crones: the Fates of the Earth & The Age of Sex Crime*
CARNETT, DANIEL RICHARD - Albuquerque historian & author of Contending for the Faith: Southern Baptists in New Mexico, 1938-1995
CARR, A.A. (AARON ALBERT) - Albuquerque Navajo-Laguna poet, filmmaker,
& author of a chilling contemporary Pueblo & Navajo science
fiction/horror novel, Eye Killers, set in NM
CARROLL, KEVIN - Albuquerque
Academy history teacher, football coach & author of Houston Oilers:
the Early Years
CARSON, ANN -
coauthor of Huning's Highland Addition Neighborhood Walking Tour &
Armchair Guide
CARRIER, JIM - author of Hush, Little Baby, about Darci Kayleen Pierce, an Albuquerque woman who strangled a pregnant woman & stole her unborn baby
CARTER, PAULA - Albuquerque novelist of a wacky Southern mystery series, starring Hillary Scarborough, interior designer, gourmet cook, gardening expert & her domestically challenged assistant Jane Ferguson, in Leading an Elegant Death, Deathday Party & Red Wine Goes With Murder, set in the South of France (in chronological order)
CASSEL, VIRGINIA C. - Albuquerque educational administrator in the U.S. Office of Education, & author of Juniata Valley, a historical novel, set during the French & Indian War
CASSELL, CAROL - Albuquerque
psychologist & author of Straight From the Heart & Swept Away
CASTEEL, BETTE DICKSON - author of Old Town, Albuquerque & Vicinity in the Nineteen
Forties & a Little Beyond
CASTILLO, ANA - former Albuquerque, now Chicago essayist of Massacre of the Dreamers, poet, editor, short story author of Loverboys, Chicana feminist, NEA Fellow, winner of the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, & author of the Tomé, magical realism novel, So Far From God; the Chicana novels, Mixquiahuala Letters, Peel My Love Like an Onion & Sapogonia. For more information, see Cuentos Chicanos (1984 ed.), Daughters of the Fifth Sun, Floating Borderlands, Floricanto Sí & Infinite Divisions: an Anthology of Chicana Literature
CASTILLO, NAHUM BOONE - Santa Rita-born, raised in Bayard, & retired from the Veterans Administration in Albuquerque, as Assistant Director; poet & author of Before and After Time*, a creation study guide
CATES, TORY - pseudonym of SARAH BIRD, former Albuquerque, now Austin romance novelist of Cloud Waltzer*, set in Albuquerque, Handful of Sky* & A Passionate Illusion*, set in Santa Fe
CATHER, STEVEN M. - co-author of Basins of the Rio Grande Rift: Structure, Stratigraphy, & Tectonic Setting & Eocene Tectonics & Depositional Setting of West-Central New Mexico & Eastern Arizona
CHACÓN, FELIPE MAXIMILIANO - Santa Fe & Albuquerque journalist, poet, editor & publisher of La Bandera Americana newspaper. He is included in Noche Buena: Hispanic American Christmas Stories, p. 70+ & Tradiciones Nuevomexicanas: Hispano Arts & Culture of New Mexico p. 309+
CHACÓN, HERMINIA - Albuquerque poet & short story author, daughter of FELIPE MAXIMILIANO CHACÓN, who is included in Herencia: the Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States, p. 183+ & Noche Buena: Hispanic American Christmas Stories p. 74+
CHAMBERLAIN, KATHLEEN P. - assistant professor of US history at Eastern Michigan University, who earned her Ph.D. from UNM, & author of Under Sacred Ground: a History of Navajo Oil, 1922-1982 & who is included in New Mexican Lives: Profiles & Historical Stories
CHAPMAN, RON - an Albuquerque recovering alcoholic who has struggled with his own demons, turned his life around to become a motivational speaker & author of the inspirational work, What a Wonderful World: Seeing Through New Eyes
CHARNAS, SUZY MCKEE - Albuquerque winner of 1994 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature & both the Hugo & Nebula Awards; author of vampire, science fiction, & adult & young adult fantasy novels, including Dorothea Dreams, Motherlines & Vampire Tapestry (set partially in Albuquerque & at the Santa Fe Opera). She is included in Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy & has written a memoir, My Father's Ghost: the Return of My Old Man & Other Second Chances. She also writes under the name, REBECCA BRAND. Her children’s novels include The Bronze King, The Kingdom of Kevin Malone & The Silver Glove
CHAVARRIA-CHAIREZ, BECKY -
former San Antonio & Dallas television broadcaster, public relations
consultant & freelance journalist, now Albuquerque children's author whose
bilingual stories include Magda's Tortillas/Las Tortillas de Magda &
Magda's Piñata Magic/Magda y la Piñata Mágica
CHÁVEZ, FRAY ANGÉLICO - Wagon Mound-born, Santa Fe Franciscan missionary, painter, translator, historical novelist, historian, poet, & author of many titles including Très Macho - He Said: Padre Gallegos of Albuquerque, New Mexico's First Congressman
CHAVEZ, DENISE - Las Cruces’
native, former Albuquerque novelist, journalist, actress, playwright,
poet, 1995 winner of Governor’s Awards for Excellence & winner of a
1995 Before Columbus/American Book Award for her novel, Face of an Angel.
She has also written Last of the Menu Girls & the acclaimed novel, Loving
Pedro Infante. She is also the compiler of Shattering the Myth: Plays by
Hispanic Women. For more information, see also: Chicana Creativity and
Criticism, Chicana Ways: Conversations with Ten Chicana Writers, Cuentos
Chicanos (1980 & 1984 ed.), Daughters of the Fifth Sun, Descansos:
an Interrupted Journey, Floating Borderlands, Infinite Divisions:
an Anthology of Chicana Literature, Las Christmas, Favorite Latino
Authors Share Their Holiday Memories, Las Mujeres Hablan, Latina
Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers, New Mexico
Plays, North of the Rio Grande, Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers
of the United States & Walking the Twilight II
CHAVEZ, EDUARDO - Albuquerque poet, historian & author, some of whose work can be found in Tierra: Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico & Voces: an Anthology
CHAVEZ, JAIME - Atrisco/Pajarito-born, now Albuquerque community organizer & poet, some of whose work can be found in Ceremony of Brotherhood, Saludos!: Poemas de Nuevo Mexico & Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers
CHAVEZ, LISA D. - Los Angeles-born, Fairbanks-raised, UNM English Department's Creative Writing Program professor & poet of In an Angry Season. She’s included in Floricanto Si! a Collection of Latina Poetry & The Floating Borderlands: 25 Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature.
CHÁVEZ, MARTIN - Albuquerque mayor & author of Getting Serious about New Mexico’s Future
CHÁVEZ, RENA L. - Belen arts & crafts entrepreneur & contributor to Heroes of the Rio Abajo: Stories of the Brave Men and Women in Valencia County History
CHAVEZ, STEVEN - Albuquerque author of Metro Court Guide: the People’s Handbook to Court Procedure
CHAVEZ, THOMAS E. - Albuquerque director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center of NM, former Santa Fe Director of the Palace of the Governor's Museum, historian & author of Illustrated History of New Mexico, a biography of Manuel Alvarez, Quest for Quivira & Spain & the Independence of the United States & Wake For A Fat Vicar, with his uncle, Fray Angelico Chavez. He is also included in Fray Angelico Chavez: Poet, Priest, & Artist & Vivan Las Fiestas!; & edited Jewish Pioneers of New Mexico
CHAVEZ, TIBO - NM lieutenant
governor, state senator, folklorist, author of New Mexican Folklore of the
Rio Abajo & co-author of El Rio Abajo; he is also included in Bicentennial
‘76 - Albuquerque Remembers
CHENEY, ETHEL B. - Albuquerque poet of a collection called New Language: a Book of Poems, & who is also included in Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
CHENHALL, ROBERT G. - Albuquerque former director of the Natural History Museum, & author of a book on coin investments: Wealth Building in the 90's
CHICAGO, JUDY - world-renowned feminist artist & Belen author of Beyond the Flower, The Birth Project, The Dinner Party, Through the Flower & co-author of Women & Art: Contested Territory. She is also included in The Practice of Peace. She is profiled in Judy Chicago: an American Vision by Edward Lucie-Smith
CHILDS, MARK C. - Albuquerque urbanist, a faculty member & the director of the Design & Planning Assistance Center in the School of Architecture & Planning at UNM; the author of Parking Spaces: a Design, Implementation, & Use Manual for Architects, Planners, & Engineers* & Squares: A Public Place Design Guide For Urbanists*; & co-author with ANTHONY ANELLA, of Never Say Goodbye: the Albuquerque Rephotograhic Survey Project
CHILTON, KATHERINE - Albuquerque
calligrapher, artist & co-author of New Mexico: a New Guide to the
Colorful State & Touring New Mexico
CHILTON, LANCE - Albuquerque pediatrician & co-author of New Mexico: a New Guide to the Colorful State & Touring New Mexico; & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
CHINO, CONRAD - Acoma Pueblo newscaster & essayist who is included in Enduring Cowboys: Life in the New Mexico Saddle & Mark Nohl’s Photographs of New Mexico
CICETTI, MELISSA - architect, photographer & author of Marking
the Land 1*, which documents in duotone photographs her trip from
CIOTOLA, NICHOLAS P. - UNM-educated author of Italians in Albuquerque
CISNEROS, SANDRA - former
visiting instructor at UNM & acclaimed novelist of Caramelo, House
on Mango Street (set in Chicago), poet of My Wicked, Wicked Ways
& short story author of Woman Hollering Creek
CLARIDGE, DRUSILLA - Albuquerque
author who worked in the Gila as a fire lookout observer for 4 summers,
historic preservation researcher for Silver City, former Santa Fean, black
powder rifle enthusiast, massage therapist, landscape painter in pastels & author of the
Apache/mining novel, Peacock Ore, with Victorio, Lozen & Sergeant
James Cooney, U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps., set in the Mogollons, in Mineral
Canyon, near Alma, NM
CLARK, DOUGLAS - Albuquerque editor of the UNM Publications Office & award-winning fantasy author of humorous medieval novels: Rehearsal for a Renaissance & Whirlwind Alchemy
CLAYTON, MARK - Albuquerque author of a NM science fiction novel
CLEAVELAND, ALICE ANN - Albuquerque co-author of New Mexico, Land of Many Cultures
CLEGG, DENISE - civil rights activist, teacher at both UNM & Albuquerque’s TVI, & poet who is included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 508+
CLEVELAND, FRED - Navajo artist, educated at the Albuquerque Indian School, & illustrator of MAURINE GRAMMER’s mystery, The Navajo Brothers and the Stolen Herd, set on the Alamo Band Indian Reservation
CLINE, SANDRA - Albuquerque novelist of Pug Sheridan,
an autobiographical novel about a young woman's arduous quest for identity
& redemption; a spiritual odyssey set in the rural Alabama of the past
century. The novel explores the nature
of love, friendship, loss, & racism & reveals how childhood choices
affect our adult lives in unexpected ways.
She previously worked in broadcasting as the producer & host of a
successful radio talk show.
COBB, AMANDA J. - UNM American Studies professor & winner of an American Book Award for Listening to Our Grandmothers' Stories: the Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females*
COBOS, RUBEN - Mexico-born, raised in Albuquerque, public school teacher in rural NM, taught at UNM for more than 30 years, with teaching positions at Stanford University & University of Nevada. He is the author of A Dictionary of New Mexico & Southern Colorado Spanish, Refranes: Southwestern Spanish Proverbs, Southwestern Spanish Proverbs: Refranes Españoles del Sudoeste, translated Cuentos From My Childhood: Legends & Folktales of Northern New Mexico by Paulette Atencio, & contributed to Music of the Spanish Folk Plays in New Mexico by Richard B. Stark. He lives in Albuquerque.
COERR, ELEANOR - Albuquerque author of many children's books, including Big Balloon Race, Josefina Story Quilt, & Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
COHEN, ELIZABETH - Port Crane, NY reporter, who grew up in Albuquerque & the author of her life caring for both her infant daughter & her father, who is afflicted with Alzheimer's: The House on Beartown Road: a Memoir of Learning & Forgetting. See also VAN PELT, ELIZABETH COHEN
COKE, VAN DEREN - UNM professor
of art, director of the UNM Art Museum, photographer & Santa Fe author of,
among others, Andrew Dasburg, Nordfeldt, the Painter, The
Painter and the Photograph; from Delacroix to Warhol, Photography in New
Mexico & Taos and Santa Fe; the Artist's Environment, 1882-1942
COLAHAN, CLARK - UNM-educated, associate professor at Whitman College, author of Miguel de Quintana & Visions of Sor Maria de Agreda: Writing Knowledge & Power; & contributor to Fray Angelico Chavez: Poet, Priest, & Artist & Pasó por Aquí
COLBERT, JAMES - assistant
professor at UNM, screenwriter, true crime author of God Bless the Child
& novelist of a gripping &
atmospheric New Orleans series, starring the mercenary, intuitive &
impulsive cop, Skinny Man in No Special Hurry, Skinny Man & All
I Have Is Blue (in chronological order)
COLLINS, LYNN - Albuquerque therapist & co-author of Parents in a Pressure Cooker
COLTRIN, MIKE - author of Sandia Mountain Hiking Guide, physical chemist, member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories, who’s enjoyed hiking in the Sandia Mountains for more than 20 years
CONDIE, CAROL J. - Albuquerque archaeologist, president/owner of 2 companies which conduct archaeological, & historical investigations, & author of Anthropology of the Desert West: Essays In Honor of Jesse D. Jennings & The Cemeteries of Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, & Parts of Sandoval & Valencia Counties & contributor to Albuquerque: a Guide to Its Geology and Culture, 2003 ed. & Secrets of a City: Papers on Albuquerque Area Archaeology in Honor of Richard A. Bice
CONFORTI, ANTHONY - Albuquerque
TV news & documentary producer, explorer of the ancient sites of
MesoAmerica, videographer of the dances, traditions & culture of the native
peoples; & author of Acalan, an epic historical novel, about early
explorers of the Maya, set partially in Columbus, NM
CONNER, ROBERT EDWARD - Albuquerque poet & author of A Window On My World
CONNORS, ANDREW L. - Senior Curator at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, in Albuquerque, co-author of Treasures on New Mexico Trails: Discover New Deal Art and Architecture, & contributor to Luis Tapia: Ay, que Vida!
CONOVER, KRIS - Albuquerque
co-author of Marriage Made Simple: 50 Hints for Building Long-Lasting Love
COOK, ANGELIQUE S. - Albuquerque acupuncture physician, shaman & author of Shamanism and the Esoteric Tradition*
COOPER, MICHAEL J. - Albuquerque's Los Angeles Laker & author of No Slack, his autobiographical book about basketball technique
COOPER, ROBERT. L. - city manager & compiler of A Greater Albuquerque; a Story of Four Years of Community Accomplishment, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1929
COOPER, URSULA - Albuquerque Public Schools retired teacher & author of the appealing children’s nature book, Mini Walks on the Mesa
CORBIN-HSI, BETH - Albuquerque nurse & medical researcher, wife of STEVEN D. HSI & co-author with him & JIM BELSHAW of Closing the Chart: a Dying Physician Examines Family, Faith & Medicine
CORDELL, LINDA S. - anthropologist, former chairperson of UNM’s Department of Anthropology, & author of several excellent books: Anasazi World, Ancient Pueblo Peoples, Before Pecos: Settlement Aggregation at Rowe, NM, Dynamics of Southwest Prehistory, Prehistory of the Southwest, & Tijeras Canyon: Analyses of the Past & contributor to Hidden Scholars, In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma, Themes In Southwest Prehistory & Understanding Complexity in the Prehistoric Southwest
CORMIER, STEVE - Albuquerque
adjunct instructor of history at T-VI & who is included in Essays in
Twentieth-Century New Mexico History & Multicultural
Southwest: a Reader
CORWELL, DAVID - Paradise Hills
author whose short story, "Legacy of the Quedana," is included the
book Cloaked in Shadow: Dark Tales of Elves
COSANDAEY, MIKELLE "KELLY" - Albuquerque-raised, now Santa Fe area deeputy director of the NM Film Office, award-winning documentary film director & producer, & author who is included in 100 Years of Filmmaking in New Mexico,1898-1998
CRAIGHEAD, MEINRAD - Albuquerque
painter, former Buddhist nun, author of Crow Mother & the Dog
God: a Retrospective, of more than 40 years of her art, & The
Mother's Songs: Images of God the Mother, & who is also included in Spirit
That Wants Me
CRAVEN, DAVID - professor of art history at UNM, a leading authority on the art & culture of the Nicaraguan Revolution, he is also the author of a landmark study of Diego Rivera, acclaimed studies of Cuban art since 1959 & author of Art & Revolution in Latin America, 1910-1990
CRAVENS, GWYNETH - former Albuquerque resident, author of many magazine articles, staff member of The New Yorker magazine & novelist of Heart’s Desire (which is set in NM), & Speed of Light
CRAVENS, R.H. (RICHARD H.) -
Albuquerque key writer for Aperture magazine, & author of Edward
Weston, Health, Healing & Beyond: Yoga & the Living Tradition of
Krishnamacharya & Photography Past Forward: Aperture At 50
CRAWFORD, JOHN F. - retired UNM
professor & co-editor of Bedford Anthology of World Literature,
Vol. 4: The Eighteenth Century, Volume 5: The Nineteenth Century,
1789-1917 & Vol. 6: The Twentieth Century; & This Is
About Vision
CREELEY, ROBERT - Placitas teacher in the 1960s - 1970s, world-renowned author of many books including The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1945-1975, The Collected Prose of Robert Creeley, Hello; a Journal, February 29-May 3, 1976, If I Were Writing This, Selected Poems & Windows, & he’s included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 21+
CREWS, JUDSON - Taos & Albuquerque's world-renowned poet & author of the Noose: a Retrospective: Four Decades; & who is included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 137+, New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, Turquoise Land & Voices From the Rio Grande
CRICHTON, KYLE - Albuquerque advertising executive, biographer of Elfego Baca, in Law
and Order, Ltd. & novelist of The Proud People, set in
Albuquerque. He’s also the father of ROBERT
CRICHTON, ROBERT -
Albuquerque-born author of the nationally-known novels, The Camerons, The
Great Impostor & The Secret of Santa Vittoria
CROCKETT, WENDY - Albuquerque author of Sweetwater Wisdom: a Native American Spiritual Way*
CROSNO, MAUDE DAVIS - Albuquerque Public Schools teacher and poet who is included in Earth Chant, Sandscript p. 98, & Turquoise Land
CROTTY, MARILYN - award-winning Albuquerque author of inspirational short stories & articles for children & adults
CROWDER, JACK - Bernalillo children's author of Stephannie and the Coyote & Tonibah and the Rainbow
CROWN, PATRICIA L. - UNM professor of anthropology & author of Ceramics
& Ideology: Salado Polychrome Pottery; co-editor of Ceramic
Production in the American Southwest & Chaco & Hohokam:
Prehistoric Regional Systems in the American Southwest. She’s also included in Themes In Southwest Prehistory & Understanding Complexity in the Prehistoric
Southwest
CUEVAS, LOU - Albuquerque author
of a collection of his grandfather's stories: Apache Legends: Songs
of the Wind Dancer & In the Valley of the Ancients: a Book of
Native American Legends
CURREY, RICHARD - Albuquerque novelist of Fatal Light (about the Vietnam War & its effects on individuals) & Lost Highway, a novel which deals with Appalachian music
CURRY, ANNE - Los Lunas novelist of Lessons Through Time*, she was formerly a nurse in the Red Rocks area of Arizona
CURTISS, URSULA REILLY - Albuquerque mystery novelist who wrote for over 35 years, from the late 1940s to the early 1980s. She wrote memorable characters & swift moving plots. Anthony Boucher in the New York Times wrote that Curtiss created "a horror constructed out of minor--even petty acts--& calculated to scare the wits out of you." All of the following are set in Albuquerque, except In Cold Pursuit*, which is set in Santa Fe: Child's Play* (originally published as Out of the Dark*), Danger: Hospital Zone*, Don't Open the Door*, The Forbidden Garden* (also published & filmed as Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice?*), Hours To Kill*, The House on Plymouth Street & Other Stories, The Menace Within, Out of the Dark* & The Poisoned Orchard. She is the sister of MARY MCMULLEN & the daughter of HELEN REILLY
CUTTER, CHARLES R. - former Albuquerquean, history professor at Purdue University, son of DONALD CUTTER & author of Protector de Indios in Colonial New Mexico & Legal Culture of Northern New Spain
CUTTER, DONALD C. - Albuquerque historian of early Spanish colonial life, including Quest for Empire, UNM professor emeritus of history, editor of New Mexico Historical Review & editor & translator of many important documents, including the Journey of Coronado, 1540-1542
DAITZ, BEN - physician, professor in the department of family, community, & emergency medicine at UNM, a documentary filmmaker, fiddle player, a regular contributor to the science section of The New York Times & author of Delivery, a serious novel suffused with humor & set in Albuquerque
DALLAS, DAVID - UNM graduate student in the School of Architecture & contributor to
Southwestern Ornamentation & Design: the Architecture of John Gaw Meem
DALY, LISABETH - Albuquerque artist, teacher, painter, owner of a graphic design firm & illustrator of Seasons of the Crane
DAUDET, LULA COLLINS - early Albuquerque memoirist of Pinto Beans and a Silver Spoon, with her sister RUTH COLLINS ROBERTS. She is also a poet who is included in Earth Chant & Sandscript p. 79
DAUNER, ROBERT K. - Albuquerque photo archivist of Early Albuquerque: a Photographic History, l870-l9l8 & Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico: a Guide to its History & Architecture
DAVENPORT, LIZ - Albuquerque
North Valley organization consultant & the author of Order From Chaos: a
Six-Step Plan for Organizing Yourself, Your Office, and Your Life
DAVIS, CYNTHIA - Albuquerque author of the biblical novels: It Is I, Joseph & Beloved Leah*
DAVIS, GAIL - Rio Rancho author of the 1st reference to more than a thousand vegetarian, cholesterol-free foods: So, Now What Do I Eat? the Complete Guide to Vegetarian Convenience Foods
DAVIS, MARY P. - Albuquerque member of the Historic Landmmarks Survey, & author of Huning Highland Neighborhood Walking Tour & Armchair Guide, co-author of Huning's Highland Addition Neighborhood Walking Tour & Armchair Guide, Shining River, Precious Land: an Oral History of Albuquerque's North Valley; & editor of Historic Albuquerque Today: an Overview Survey of Historic Buildings & Districts
DAVIS, MICHAEL - retired chief of gastrointestinal radiology at the UNM School of Medicine & co- author of Fundamentals of Fluoroscopy*
DAVIS, PAUL - retired UNM
professor & co-editor of Bedford Anthology of World Literature,
Vol. 1: The Ancient World, Vol. 2: The Middle Period, Vol. 3: The
Early Modern World, Vol. 4: The Eighteenth Century, Volume 5: The
Nineteenth Century, 1789-1917 & Vol. 6: The Twentieth Century
DAVIS, TOM - Albuquerque cowboy & author of Be Tough or Be Gone: the Adventures of a Modern Day Cowboy
DAWLEY, WALTER - illustrator of Old Town, Albuquerque
DAYHOFF, SIGNE A. - Placitas psychologist, president of Effectiveness-Plus, which produces psychology self-help books & author of Diagonally-Parked in a Parallel Universe: Working Through Social Anxiety
DE BACA, ELVERA ADOLFITA - Los Lunas political activist, writer for the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce Newsletter & author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
DEAN, CAROLEE - Albuquerque author of a young adult novel, Comfort, about 14-year-old Kenny who fantasizes about his escape from his hometown of Comfort, Texas, following his alcoholic father's release from prison
DEAN, ERIC - Albuquerque author of Fire Ready*, regarding his experiences fighting fires across the west with the Forest Service & the National Park Service
DEAN, MESA - pseudonym of Melody Groves, NM native, Albuquerque public school teacher, screen playwright, country-western band member, bull rider & author of the exciting Western, set in NM Territory: The Quest, & its sequel, Sonoran Rage
DEBRUIN, ELLEN - UNM geographer & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
DEBUYS, WILLIAM - Albuquerque
fishing & outdoor life author of Enchantment and Exploitation & River
of Traps: a Village Life
DEESE-ROBERTS, SUSAN - Albuquerque head of Zimmerman Public Services at UNM, Associate Professor & author of Library Instruction: A Peer Tutoring Model*
DEFENBAUGH, HELENA CHENEY - Albuquerque retired legal secretary & poet who is included in Turquoise Land. For further information, please see DOMINIAN, HELENA DEFENBAUGH
DEGEER, STANLEY - Albuquerque historian of Pikes Peak is Unser Mountain: a History of the Pikes Peak Auto Hill Climb
DEGENHARDT, WILLIAM G. - UNM
professor emeritus of biology & co-author of Amphibians and Reptiles of
New Mexico
DEJONG, CONSTANCE - Albuquerque sculptor, UNM professor of art & author of Constance DeJong: Metal, a retrospective showing of her work
DEMARK, JUDITH BOYCE - former Albuquerquean, assistant professor of history at Northern Michigan University & editor of Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico History
DENKER, NANCY - children’s author & illustrator of Up, Up, & Away: a Balloon Trip Over Albuquerque
DENNIS, BETH - Albuquerque illustrator in the UNM Department of Biology & illustrator of Trees and Shrubs of New Mexico
DESMAISONS, KATHLEEN - Albuquerque nutritionist & author of Little Sugar Addicts: End The Mood Swings, Meltdowns, Tantrums, & Low Self-Esteem In Your Child Today, Potatoes Not Prozac, The Sugar Addict's Total Recovery Program & Your Last Diet!: the Sugar Addict's Weight-Loss Plan
DEVON, MARJORIE - director of UNM’s Tamarind Institute of Lithography & editor of Tamarind: Forty Years
DEWITT, DAVE - Albuquerque publisher of the Fiery Foods & Whole Chile Pepper magazines, travel & cooking author of, among others, Barbecue Inferno: Cooking With Chile Peppers on the Grill, The Chile Pepper Encyclopedia, Discover New Mexico, Food of Santa Fe, Meltdown: the Official Fiery Foods Show Cookbook and Chilehead Resource Guide, The Pepper Pantry: Chipotle, The Pepper Pantry: Habanero, The Spicy Food Lover’s Bible*, Sweet Heat: Spicy Desserts (& More) for Chile Lovers & Whole Chile Pepper Book. He’s also the author of The Mute Strategy*, a science fiction novel, set in Capitan; & is married to NANCY GERLACH
DEWITT, SUSAN
- author of Historic Albuquerque Today:: an Overview Survey of Historic
Buildings & Districts & co-author
of The Old House Workbook: Rehabilitation Guidelines for Albuquerque
DIAZ, ROSE - Albuquerque co-author of Hispanic Heroes: Portraits of New Mexicans Who Have Made a Difference & associate director of UNM's Center for Southwest Research
DICAMILLO, ROGER - Albuquerque painter, lithographer, sculptor & author of Li In Italia (Over There in Italy), a Picture Book With Sketches & Paintings*
DICK, RUTH W. - editor of Kenneth M. Adams, N.A., 1897-1966, about the renowned Taos painter
DICKEY, ROLAND F. - UNM Press director & author of one of NM’s most beloved books: New Mexico Village Arts; he is also included in Bicentennial ‘76 - Albuquerque Remembers
DIKE, MARGARET H. - co-author with CAROLYN N. SEDBERRY of Bicentennial '76: Albuquerque Remembers
DISTASIO, RENA - Tijeras native New Mexican, free-lance writer
& senior author of Albuquerque: Blazing New Trails
DIXON, GEORGE, DR. - retired Albuquerque orthopedic surgeon & author of Exercise a la Carte
DOBKINS, LUCY M. - Albuquerque children's author of Daddy, There's a Hippo In the Grapes
DODGE, MEREDITH D. - research associate professor of history at UNM, an editor of the Vargas Project, & co-editor of Blood on the Boulders: the Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1694-97, Two Hearts, One Soul: the Correspondence of the Condesa de Galve, 1688-96, Letters from the New World: Selected Correspondence of Don Diego de Vargas to his Family, 1675-1706, By Force of Arms: the Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1691-93, & To the Royal Crown Restored: the Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1692-94
DOEREN, STEPHANIE - Albuquerque author who is included in Spirit That Wants Me
DOLDE, LILLIAN
- Albuquerque co-author of "That'ss My Bank!", about the
Sunwest Bank of Albuquerque
DOMINIAN, HELENA DEFENBAUGH - Albuquerque retired legal secretary & poet who is included in Earth Chant. For further information, please see DEFENBAUGH, HELENA CHENEY
DOMRZALSKI, DENNIS - Albuquerque reporter & novelist of the motorcycle road trip, I Got Stinky Feet*
DONALDSON, STEPHEN R. - world-renowned Corrales' fantasy/quest novelist of "Mordant’s Need" companion volumes: The Mirror of Her Dreams & A Man Rides Through; the "Thomas Covenant" chronicles: Lord Foul’s Bane, The Illearth War, The Power That Preserves, The Wounded Land, The One Tree & The White Gold Wielder; “The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant”: The Runes of the Earth; & the "Gap" series: The Real Story, Forbidden Knowledge, A Dark and Hungry God Arises, Chaos and Order, & This Day All Gods Die (in chronological order). He's also written several mysteries, The Man Who Fought Alone & The Man Who Killed His Brother. Under the name REED STEPHENS, he wrote the prequel, The Man Who Risked His Partner. He is also included in Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy.
DOOLITTLE, ROSALIE - Albuquerque's first & probably most influential gardening expert & author of Southwest Gardening
DORATO, PETER - UNM electrical engineering professor, director of UNM's Center for Intelligent Systems Engineering (ISE) & co-author of Italian Culture, a View from America. He has taught an Italian Culture class with UNM's Division of Continuing Education since 1993. The book is based on his class notes and lectures
DORATO, SYLVIA - physicist with the Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate, chief of Tactical Laser Systems Branch, and co-author with her father, of Italian Culture, a View from America
DOTY, C. STEWART - Albuquerque
resident, professor emeritus of history at the University of Maine &
contributor to Photographing Navajos: John Collier, Jr. on the Reservation,
1948-1953
DOUGHERTY, MARY - award-winning poet, attorney mediator, judge in Corrales, & who is included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 312+
DOXON, LYNN ELLEN - Albuquerque
Journal gardening columnist, horticulturist & author of High Desert
Yards and Gardens
DRUMMOND, J.K. - an
DUBOVIK, G.J. - Albuquerque author of I, Woman*, which combines prose & poetry
DUDLEY, JAMES - Albuquerque high school math teacher & co-author of New Mexico: a New Guide to the Colorful State & Touring New Mexico
DUDLEY, MARY - Albuquerque program manager of UNM’s Family Development Training Institute & author of Baby Love Pack*, an interactive book for parents & their newborns
DUFF, J. DIANNE - Albuquerque poet, short story author & co-editor of The Spirit That Wants Me
DUFFNER, ROBERT W. - Albuquerque
chief historian at the Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force
Base & author of Airborne Laser, Bullets of Light
DUNAWAY, DAVID KING - UNM
professor, editor of Writing the Southwest & author of How Can I
Keep From Singing: Pete Seeger & Huxley in Hollywood
DUNCAN, LOIS - world-famous Albuquerque author of many
titles, including the young adult suspense novels, set in Albuquerque: I
Know What You Did Last Summer, Killing Mr. Griffin (a mystery set at Albuquerque’s Del Norte High), Ransom
(a mystery), Season of the Two-Heart* (about Pueblo Indians), Summer
of Fear & Third Eye. Her
children’s books include among others, Hotel for Dogs, set partially in
Albuquerque. She also wrote 2
adult works set in Albuquerque, a novel, When the Bough Breaks & Who
Killed My Daughter? a nonfiction work about the tragic death of her
daughter Kaitlyn. Duncan also wrote Psychic
Connections: a Journey Into the Mysterious World of Psi & she’s the
mother of author KERRY ARQUETTE
DUNMIRE, WILLIAM W. - Placitas naturalist & biologist, professional nature photographer & co-author with GAIL D. TIERNEY of Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners & Wild Plants of the Pueblo Province: Exploring Ancient and Enduring Uses
DUNN, MARK - unique & witty Albuquerque novelist of Ella Minnow Pea: a Progressively Lipogrammatic Epistolary Fable, about a girl living on a fictional South Carolina island. She finds herself acting to save her people from the encroaching totalitarianism of the island's Council, which has banned the use of certain letters of the alphabet; Ibid: a Life: a Novel in Footnotes, about Jonathan Bashette who has three legs, but who escapes the circus to become a soldier in World War I. There, he first glimpses his future calling: male underarm deodorants; & Welcome to Higby, which follows the hilarious goings-on in a small town in northern Mississippi over Labor Day weekend. He lovingly traces the eccentric & touching lives of his characters. He’s also the author of United States Counties & Zounds!: a Browser's Dictionary of Interjections
DUNNAM, LORA - co-author of Songs in the Night: the Story of Marion K. Van
Devanter, who was Albuquerque’s Presbyterian Hospital’s Goodwill
Ambassador
DURANT, PENNY RAIFE - Albuquerque-born & raised teacher, co-founder & director of the Calico Butterfly Preschool, & author of Bubblemania, Make a Splash: Science Activities With Liquids, Prize-Winning Science Fair Projects; & a young adult novel, When Heroes Die, set in Albuquerque (winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Best Juvenile/Young Adult Novel for 1992)
DUVALL, AIMEE - pseudonym of AIMEE & DAVID THURLO, authors of To Tame a Heart*, a NM romance
DYBWAD, G.L. - Albuquerque solid state physicist & co-author with his wife, JOY V. BLISS, of James A. Michener: the Beginning Teacher and His Textbooks
DYER, ROBERT - Albuquerque
author of a number of westerns, including Blood Hunt*, Revenge Trail*,
Showdown at Total Wreck*, Slade*, Sundown at Total Wreck*,
& Total Wreck War*. He’s been a mechanical engineer for most
of his life, is the author of short stories, nonfiction articles, dealing with
the history of the Old West, horror novelist & poet. He also writes
under the name, HUGH
MORROW
EBOCH, CHRIS - Albuquerque children’s author of the Mayan story about a 9th
century Guatemalan girl heroine, in The Well of Sacrifice
EDENFIELD, ANN - Albuquerque vice president of sales for Americana Publishing,
Christian minister, founder of Wings Ministry, a group that helps families of
people who are imprisoned, & author of Family Arrested: How to Survive
the Incarceration of a Loved One
EDRINGTON, THOMAS S. - Albuquerque Sandia National Lab manager
& co-author of The Battle of Glorieta Pass
EDWARDS, DIANNE
EDENFIELD - Corrales
writer, former poetry editor at UNM Press, & is included in & co-edited
In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 266+
EGAN, MARTHA - Corrales author of Mílagros: Votive
Offerings from the Americas & Relicarios: Devotional Miniatures from
the Americas & novelist of the Albuquerque mystery Clearing Customs,
about the US Customs “dirty little war” against small import businesses. She & her sister, Polly Arango, owned
Pachamama, in Old Town, Albuquerque & Santa Fe. She identifies & appraises museum &
private collections; & she has held the honorary position of Research
Associate at the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe. In 2004, she received the first Van Deren
Coke Annual Achievement Award for her efforts to educate the public about Latin
American folk art. She is also an
environmentalist, serving on the Corrales Air Toxics Task Force from 2002 to
2004.
EISENSTADT, MELVIN M. - Corrales engineering professor, lawyer, a
former judge, an aerospace engineer & novelist of Navajo Afterglow. Two Navajo uranium miners are among those
who’ve contracted lung cancer in the 1950s - 1970s. Suspecting that something
was wrong in the mines, they contact an attorney at Navajo Legal Services. The
subsequent investigation reveals a government conspiracy. The novel includes an investigation that
breaks through the "classified” barrier, a romance, a scalping, &
trial.
EISENSTADT, PAULINE - Corrales author of Corrales, Portrait
of a Changing Village
ELDER, EVELYN ROSS - Albuquerque poet who is included in Earth
Chant, Sandscript p. 5 & Turquoise Land
ELLIOTT, CHARLES H. - Paradise Hills psychologist who wrote with his wife, LAURA L. SMITH, Hollow Kids: Recapturing
the Soul of a Generation Lost to the Self-Esteem Myth, Why Can’t I Be the
Parent I Want to Be?: End Old Patterns and Enjoy Your Children & with
another author, Why Can't I Get What I Want?: How to Stop Making the Same
Old Mistakes and Start Living a Life You Can Love
ELLIS, FLORENCE HAWLEY - Albuquerque professor, historian, anthropologist, pioneer in
ethno-archaeology who directed the work at Ghost Ranch (for whom the Ghost
Ranch Museum of Anthropology was named), & author of From Drought to
Drought
ELLIS, RICHARD N. - UNM professor of history & editor of New Mexico Past and
Present: a Historical Reader, technical editor of The Western San Juan
Mountains: Their Geology, Ecology, and Human History & author of General
Pope and U.S. Indian Policy & New Mexico Historic Documents
ELLIS, ROBERT - Albuquerque author of New Mexico Trivia
Enchantorama; 250th
Anniversary of Albuquerque, 1706-1956 - Reference 978.961 Enchantorama
ENCINIAS, MIGUEL - Albuquerque historian, author, co-editor of Historia de la Nueva
Mexico, 1610, by Gaspar Perez de Villagra, novelist of Two Lives for
Oñate; & essayist & translator included in Flow of the
River/Corre el Río
ENGLADE, KEN - Corrales author of many true crime books,
including, Beyond Reason, Everybody’s Best Friend, Murder in
Boston & To Hatred Turned
ENGLAND, PAM - Albuquerque New Age nurse-midwife & author of Birthing From
Within
ENGLISH, ROBERT - Albuquerque poet & author of Poetical Jest - My Gestful World
& Only Yours! Susanna, My Rose & his autobiography, Portraits
in Poetry
ERICKSON, DONNA - Albuquerque native, host & producer of the PBS series Donna’s Day & author of Fabulous
Funstuff for Families* & More Prime Time Activities With Kids
ESPINOSA, CARMEN - Albuquerque folklore collector, past
president of both the New Mexico Folklore Society & the Albuquerque
Historical Society, & author of Freeing of the Deer, and Other New
Mexico Indian Myths, New Mexico Colonial Embroidery & Shawls,
Crinolines and Filigree: the Dress and Adornment of the Women of New Mexico
ESPINOSA, GILBERTO - Albuquerque attorney, historian,
folklorist, author of Heroes, Hexes and Haunted Halls & co-author of
El Rio Abajo, , about the Rio Grande Valley & Belen. He is also included in Bicentennial ‘76 -
Albuquerque Remembers & From the Beginning: a Historical Survey
Commemorating the Solemn Rededication of San Felipe de Neri Church, 1706-1972,
Old Town Plaza
ESTERGREEN, MARION M. - Albuquerque-born, later, Taos & Santa Fe historian of Kit
Carson: a Portrait In Courage & poet who is included in Sandscript
p. 38 & Turquoise Land
ETULAIN, RICHARD - retired UNM western history professor,
former editor of the New Mexico Historical Review, Director of the
Center for the American West, & nationally recognized author on the history
& culture of the West, including the 1996 Western Heritage Award-winning, Contemporary
New Mexico, 1940-1990, American West in 2000: Essays in Honor of Gerald
D. Nash, Hollywood West, Lives of Film Legends Who Shaped It, New
Mexican Lives: Profiles & Historical Stories, Portraits of Basques
in the New World, Re-Imagining the Modern American West, a Century of
Fiction, History and Art, Researching Western History, Telling
Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry, Wild Women of the
Old West, With Badges and Bullets: Lawmen and Outlaws in the Old West,
& Writing Western History. He is also included in Literary New
Mexico
EVANO, D. CHARLES - Albuquerque novelist of the environmental Navajo Reservation mystery: Spirit
Messenger
EVANS, MAX - NM ranch-raised,
professional painter, award-winning Albuquerque screenwriter & author of
many western ranch novels, including The Rounders & Shadow of
Thunder, his acclaimed newer novels: Bluefeather Fellini, Bluefeather
Fellini In the Sacred Realm, Faraway Blue, Spinning Sun, Grinning
Moon: Novellas, & Now & Forever: a Novel of Love & Betrayal
Reincarnate, set in Grants during the uranium boom years of the 1950s. His
nonfiction includes: Albuquerque: Spirit of the New West, Hi Lo to
Hollywood: a Max Evans Reader & Madam Millie: Bordellos from Silver
City to Ketchikan. He is also included in Tierra: Contemporary Short
Fiction of New Mexico & 100 Years of Filmmaking in New Mexico
1898-1998; & he edited & is included in Hot Biscuits: Eighteen
Stories by Women and Men of the Ranching West. He’s also written a young
person’s novel, My Pardner. For
further information, see SLIM RANDLES’ biography, Ol' Max Evans: The
First Thousand Years
EVANS, PATRICIA GARDNER - Albuquerque romance novelist of Keeping Christmas*, Silver
Noose* & Summer of the Wolf (none set in NM)
EVERMAN, PAUL - 1930's Albuquerque "pulp" author
EWING, HARRY - Albuquerque novelist of Wild and Untamed*, the story of a boy
who left his comfortable Santa Fe home to seek his destiny. He winds up in the
Taos Valley where he encounters a young Pueblo Indian with whom he develops a
friendship
EYSTUROY, ANNIE O. - former Albuquerque author of Daughters of Self-Creation: the
Contemporary Chicana Novel & co-editor of This Is About Vision
FAGERLUND, RICHARD - performs Integrated Pest Management at UNM & is the author of Ask
the Bugman: Environmentally Safe Ways to Control Household Pests & The Bugman on Bugs: Understanding Household
Pests & the Environment
FARBER, DAVID R. - award-winning UNM history professor, husband of BETH BAILEY & author of The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s, Chicago '68 & The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s
FAY, JOYCE - Corrales animal photographer & author
of a book of Western photographs of her dogs, Adventures of Bro and Tracy
FEIBELMAN, PETER J. - Sandia National Laboratory solid state physicist & author of a
book on "survival in science": A Ph.D Is Not Enough*
FEINSTEIN, ROSALIA - England-born, Australia-raised, now Albuquerque retired French
teacher, child-welfare worker & knitter who is included in KnitLit:
Sweaters & Their Stories…& Other Writing About Knitting
FELDMAN, GAIL CARR - former Albuquerque UNM professor, now
Santa Fe clinical psychologist & author on satanic ritual abuse: Lessons
In Evil, Lessons From the Light & From Crisis to Creativity: Taking
Advantage of Adversity
FENOGLIO, EMMA JOAN - Albuquerque attorney who represents abused
& neglected children in Children's Court, a volunteer with Living Through
Cancer & author of A Beautiful Time: Mom's Lessons on Dying*
FERGUSON, J.M. (JOSEPH M.) - Albuquerque-raised, now Arizona poet &
short story author of Summerfield Stories, which are set in NM. For more information, see: Southwest
Towards the Twenty-First Century
FERGUSSON, ERNA - beloved Albuquerque author of novels & cultural histories,
including Albuquerque, Do You Remember?: a Series of Articles
on Old Albuquerque, Printed in the Albuquerque "Herald", 1922-1923,
New Mexico: a Pageant of Three
Peoples, & Murder
& Mystery in New Mexico. She’s
the sister of HARVEY.
FERGUSSON, HARVEY - acclaimed
Albuquerque historical novelist of the thought-provoking, sympathetic &
vivid NM novels: The Conquest of Don Pedro (set in Doña Ana), Followers
of the Sun; a Trilogy of the Santa Fe Trail: Wolf Song, In Those Days, The
Blood of the Conquerors, Footloose McGarnigal (set in Taos), Grant
of Kingdom (about the Maxwell Land Grant), Hot Saturday (set in
Albuquerque), In Those Days (set in Albuquerque & on the Santa Fe
Trail), The Life of Riley (set in Albuquerque), The Santa Fe Omnibus:
a Trilogy of the Santa Fe Trail Containing Three Complete Novels
(originally published as: Followers of the Sun), & Wolf Song
(set in Taos)
FERNANDEZ, DAVID - Albuquerque & Taos journalist &
water consultant; he is included in Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano
Writers
Fiestas in Our
Mountain Villages - All the Children in All the Mountain Schools; the Villages,
Escabasa, Juan Tomas, Cedro,
Carnuel, Canoncito, Sedillo, Tijeras, San Antonito, Chilili, San Antonio - j Reference 394.2 Fiestas 1971
FINCH, THERESE A. - former Albuquerque freelance writer & co-author of The Book of
Secrets
FINK, CAROLYN PARNALL - former Albuquerque, then Los Lunas nurse
& author of On Call: a Nurse’s Notes on Growth & Learning & On
Duty: a Nurse’s Notes on Life and Death, about her experiences at UNM’s
Cancer Center
FINLAY, ALICE SULLIVAN - Albuquerque children's author of award
winning novels, including the paperbacks: A Gift From the Sea for Laura Lee*,
Laura Lee & the Little Pine Tree*, Laura Lee & the Monster
Sea*, & A Victory for Laura Lee*
FIORE, KYLE - Albuquerque historian, folklorist &
co-author of Santa Fe and Taos: the Writer’s Era, 1916-1941
FISHER, IRENE - Los Griegos newspaper woman &
memoirist of Bathtub and Silver Bullet, More Bathtubs, Fewer Bullets
& Old Albuquerque
FITZPATRICK, GEORGE - long-time former editor of New Mexico
Magazine, & author of several excellent books, including: Albuquerque:
100 Years in Pictures, This is New Mexico & co-author of The
Morleys: Young Upstarts on the Southwest Frontier. He also wrote New Mexico for Young People
FLANDERMEYER, KENNETH L. - Albuquerque dermatologist & author of a book on skin care: Clear
Skin
FLEISCHMAN, PAUL - part-time Albuquerque author, Newbery Prize-winner & 1994 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction winner, for his excellent children's novels & poetry, including Disappearing Act (set partially in Albuquerque)
FLEMING, TIM - Northern NM essayist, UNM emergency
medicine physician & author of a collection of autobiographical essays: A
Rendezvous With Clouds
FLINT, STEVE - former UNM programmer & analyst in the
Division of Government Research, author of Toxic Work: Women Workers
at GTE Lenkurt & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
FLORES-TURNEY, CAMILLE - former associate editor of New Mexico
Magazine, reporter for the Albuquerque Journal & author of Howl:
the Artwork of Luis Jimenez
FLYNN, CAROLYN - Albuquerque editor of the Albuquerque
Journal’s Sage Magazine, & author of The Intuitive Arts on Health:
Use Astrology, Tarot & Psychic Intuition to See Your Future*
FOGARTY, MARY JAYNE - Los Lunas managing editor of Crones Unlimited Press, author & poet
of the collections: Crone's Crossing, Diamonds in Snow: the Wisdom
Years & Passions*
FOOTE, CHERYL J. - Albuquerque historian of NM women
pioneers: Women of the New Mexico Frontier, 1846-1912. She is also
included in New Mexico Women: Intercultural Perspectives
FORD, MICHAEL J. - Albuquerque employee of the National Weather Service & contributor
to New Mexico in Maps
FORD, SUSAN - Corrales' daughter of President Gerald & Betty Ford, professional
photographer & author of the Eve Cooper series: Double Exposure: a First
Daughter Mystery & Sharp Focus; both of which include details of
life in the White House
FORREST, GEORGE - Veguita poet who is included in Southwest Potpourri*
FORREST, SUZANNE - part-time resident of Placitas, historian & author of Century
of Faith: One Hundred Years in the Life of the Las Placitas Presbyterian Church
& Preservation of the Village: New Mexico’s Hispanics and the New Deal
FOSTER, BARBARA SPENCER - 3rd generation New Mexican & novelist
of Girl of the Manzanos, a romance set in NM amid the political
maneuverings during Statehood & Pecos
Queen*, set on the
Pecos River
FRANCIS, LEE - Laguna Pueblo, Associate Professor of
Native American Studies at the UNM, author of Native Time: an
Historical Timeline of Native America & poet of On the Good Red
Interstate: Truck Stop Tellings & Other Poems*. He is also the current National
Director of Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers & won the
Arts Alliance Annual Bravos Award for Excellence in Literary Arts, in 2003. His
sisters are Paula Gunn Allen & Carol Lee Sanchez. They are cousins of LESLIE
MARMON SILKO, & their father is E. Lee Francis, a former NM lieutenant governor
FRANCIS, SAMUEL A. - Albuquerque lawyer & author of Good Behaviour: the Supreme
Court & Article III of the United States Constitution, about the
Bush-Gore presidential election & the Supreme Court's involvement with it
FRAZIER, KENDRICK - Albuquerque editor of the Skeptical
Inquirer magazine, & author of several books: Our Turbulent Sun,
People of Chaco: a Canyon and Its Culture, UFO Invasion: the Roswell
Incident, Alien Abduction, & Government Coverups & Violent Face
of Nature
FREED, EVERETT- Durango-born author of River of Lost Souls*, an historical
novel set on Colorado's Western slope, involving a romance & the Klan. The
author finished his career as an industrial engineer for the Air Force
Procurement Division in Albuquerque
FREEMAN, PATRICIA - author of Southeast Heights Neighborhoods of Albuquerque: History
& Civic Guide
FREER, NEIL - Albuquerque & Santa Fe philosopher
& author of Breaking the Godspell* & Neuroglphs*
FRIED, HOWARD J. - Albuquerque author of Beyond the Checkride: What Your Flight
Instructor Never Taught You*, Eye of Experience*, Fay Gillis
Wells in the Air & On the Air*, Flight Test Tips & Tales From
the Eye of the Examiner*, More Eye of Experience*, Still More Eye
of Experience*, & Violation: the Aero-Legal Resource Guide*
FRIEDER, PATRICIA - Santa Fe-born & raised, Albuquerque
lawyer, former Assistant Attorney General for Criminal Appeals & novelist
of the mysteries, Signature Murder, & its sequel, Privileged
Communications, both set in Santa Fe
FRITZ, CHRISTIAN G. - law professor at UNM & author of Federal Justice in
FRITZ, JOHN M. -
archaeologist, adjunct professor of anthropology at UNM, with George Michell,
he’s been co-director of the Vijayanagara research project since 1981. He’s
carried out a detailed archaeological survey of the Vijayanagara site & is
the coeditor of New World
Archaeology: Theoretical & Cultural Transformations: Readings From Scientific American. His earlier work was
concerned with hunting/gathering subsistence systems & with typology of
stone tools in the prehistoric US Southwest. He then became interested in the
relations of settlement plan & world view in
From the Beginning: a Historical Survey
Commemorating the Solemn Rededication of San Felipe de Neri Church, 1706-1972,
Old Town Plaza - 282.789 F931
FRUMKIN, GENE - Albuquerque poet, UNM professor emeritus
of English & author of Clouds and Red Earth, Comma In the Ear,
Freud By Other Means, Old Man Who Swam Away and Left Only His Wet
Feet & Saturn Is Mostly Weather. For more information, see: Another
Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico, In Company: an Anthology of New
Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 74+, New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, Saludos!:
Poemas de Nuevo Mexico, Southwest Towards the Twenty-First Century, The
Spirit That Wants Me, Turquoise Land & Voices From the Rio
Grande
FUENTES, TINA - Albuquerque artist, teacher & author
who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
FURMAN, NECAH STEWART - former Albuquerque author who wrote Sandia
National Laboratories: the Postwar Decade
FURSTENBERG, SHIELA JANE - author of Rio
Rancho: a History
GABRIEL, KATHRYN - Albuquerque-raised, now Rio Rancho author
of Country Towns of New Mexico, Gambler Way, a historical survey
of Native American gambling & religion, Roads to Center Place: a
Cultural Atlas of Chaco Canyon and the Anasazi & editor of Marietta
Wetherill's memoirs: Reflections on Life With the Navajo In Chaco Canyon
GAGE, LORETTA - Corrales veterinarian & co-author with
her sister of If Wishes Were Horses, the Education of a Veterinarian
GAGE, NANCY - Grants, Corrales & Albuquerque
playwright & teacher, & co-author of If Wishes Were Horses. More
of her work can be found in New Mexico Plays & Tierra:
Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico
GALEN, NINA -
UNM graduate & novelist of Eden Motel & To Love Flaminio,
both set in NM
GALLAGHER, MISHA - Albuquerque poet & linguist, who is
included in Spider Woman's Granddaughters
GALLEGOS, ROBERT V. - Albuquerque author & collector of the ethnological collection
profiled in Two Hundred Years of Historic Pueblo Pottery
GALLES, LEE -
Albuquerque owner of Lee Galles Oldsmobile-Isuzu-Lexus, one of state's top 10
dealerships, & owner of Competitive Edge, an advertising agency. He’s a much sought-after speaker, & the
author of 14 books on marketing strategies, such as Antelopes, Car Dealers & Lawyers: Let's Put the Free Back in Free
Enterprise
GANDERT, MIGUEL - Española-born, now Albuquerque fine arts
& documentary photographer, former news production manager &
videographer for KOAT-TV, & Associate Professor of Communication &
Journalism at UNM; who is included in Essential Landscape: the New Mexico
Photographic Survey & Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy: Forms, Agencies
& Discourse; & photographer of Nuevo México Profundo: Rituals of
an Indo-Hispano Homeland, Pilgrimage to Chimayó & Through
Children’s Eyes: 100 Young Photographers Capture Their Community
GANDILHON, CATHERINE JEAN - Placitas author who is included in The
Spirit That Wants Me
GANTOS, JACK - former Albuquerque, now Santa Fe author of
many popular children’s funny cat books starring Rotten Ralph, a
finalist for the National Book Award for Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
& the adult novel, Zip Six
GARBER, GAIL - Albuquerque internationally-known quilter, pattern designer &
author of Stellar Journeys: Flying Geese & Star Quilts
GARCEZ, ANTONIO R. - Truth or Consequences author & bilingual collector of among
others, Adobe Angels: the Ghosts of Albuquerque & American Indian
Ghost Stories of the Southwest, which includes many Albuquerque ghosts
GARCIA, ARTURO - Belen-born Albuquerque general practice doctor, & author of a WWII
historical novel, Schwammenauel Dam, based on his war-time experience,
in Europe
GARCIA, ELAINE BRILEY - Albuquerque poet who is included in Earth
Chant. She also wrote under the name ELAINE
BRILEY
GARCIA, F. CHRIS - 1st Hispanic President of UNM, former UNM
Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, author of Chicano Politics:
Readings, New Mexico Government, Political Socialization of
Chicano Children, Pursuing Power: Latinos and the Political System, State
and Local Government in New Mexico & contributor to New Mexico in
Maps
GARCIA, KIRK - Chippewa, Turtle Mountain Reservation,
Albuquerque poet & journalist who is included in Remembered Earth
GARCIA, NASARIO - Rio
Puerco-born, Albuquerque-raised Highlands University Dean of Liberal & Fine
Arts, folklorist, collector of Hispanic NM folktales & reminiscences &
author of Albuquerque, Feliz Cumpleaños!: Three Centuries to Remember
among many others
GARCIA, PATRICIO - Albuquerque’s North Valley artist &
illustrator of Los Ojos del Tejedor: the Eyes of the Weaver by CRISTINA ORTEGA
GARCIA-CAMARILLO, CECILIO - early Texas Chicano literature forefather,
now Albuquerque poet of Selected Poetry*, scriptwriter for La Compania
de Teatro de Albuquerque, editor &
TV personality who is included in Ceremony of Brotherhood, In
Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 180+, Saludos!:
Poemas de Nuevo Mexico & Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano
Writers
GARDNER, GAYLE M. - Albuquerque co-author of Marriage Made Simple: 50 Hints for
Building Long-Lasting Love
GARES, GLEN - Albuquerque author of a mystery, Guilty
Until Proven Innocent*
GARVIN, JAMES R. - Menaul School’s president & author of 10 children’s books
GARVIN, JIM - Albuquerque novelist of Mother/Father
Nature’s Tough-Love Letters*
GASPAR DE ALBA, ALICIA - El Paso poet, educated at UNM, Braille transcriber
of children’s books, short story author, & novelist of Desert Blood: the
Juarez Murders & Sor Juana’s Second Dream. She is also included in Floricanto Sí,
Three Times a Woman: Chicana Poetry & Women Singing In the Snow.
More information on her can be found under: ALBA,
ALICIA GASPAR DE
GATUSKIN, ZELDA LEAH - Albuquerque multi-media artist, co-editor
of Christmas Blues & author of Castle Lark & the Tale That
Stopped Time & Time Dancer: a Novel of Gypsy Magic
GAULT, REBECCA - Corrales educator, Ph.D in German
literature & sociolinguistics, & novelist of a multi-faceted &
satisfying metaphysical romance, Into the Blue, which is set in
Westphalia, Germany
GELSANLITER, DAVID - Corrales former diplomat, journalist,
former manager of the Philadelphia Inquirer & Philadelphia Daily
News, & author of Fresh Ink: Behind the Scenes of a Major
Metropolitan Newspaper
GERBER, LOUIS S. - Albuquerque public health doctor who wrote
an account of his life as one of the 1st people in whom a pig heart valve was
used to replace his heart valve: Endurance: a Physician Recounts the Ordeal
of His Open Heart Surgery
GERDES, DICK - Albuquerque translator & editor of The
Best of Sabine R. Ulibarri: Selected Stories
GERLACH, ALLEN - Albuquerque lawyer, professor of Ecuadorian, Andean & Latin
American history at UNM's Andean Center in Quito, at UNM & at NMSU; &
author of Indians, Oil, & Politics: a Recent History of Ecuador
GERLACH, NANCY - Albuquerque registered dietitian,
co-author of Barbecue Inferno: Cooking With Chile Peppers on the Grill, Food
of Santa Fe, Foods of the Maya, The Pepper Pantry: Habanero, Whole
Chile Pepper Book & co-publisher of Whole Chile Pepper magazine.
She is married to DAVE DEWITT
GIBSON, DANIEL - Albuquerque’s North Valley-born, now
Santa Fe environmental & natural history columnist for the Santa Fe
Reporter & author of American Southwest Travel-Smart Trip Planner,
Pueblos of the Rio Grande: a Visitor's Guide, Travel Smart: New Mexico* & Audubon Guide to the National Wildlife Refuges: Southwest*. He’s written for Ski, Skiing, Powder, Ski World, Wintersport Business, Outdoorlife.com & other snow sport
publications. He’s served as the editor of Native
Peoples Magazine for the past three years, & also produces a weekly
snow sports & travel column for regional newspapers.
GILL, DONALD A. - author of Stories Behind the Street Names
of
GILL, LISA - Albuquerque poet of Red as a Lotus:
Letters to a Dead Trappist & Mortar & Pestle*, organizer of
Herland, with TRACI PARIS, an
Albuquerque women’s group designed to support new authors; short story author,
who won 1st place in the 7th edition of American Fiction: the Best
Unpublished Short Stories by Emerging Writers*. She is also included in In Company: an
Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 495+
GILMAN, DOROTHY - Albuquerque author of the very popular
mystery novels of Mrs. Pollifax, grandma & part-time CIA agent: Mrs.
Pollifax and the Golden Triangle, Mrs. Pollifax and the Lion Killer,
Mrs. Pollifax, Innocent Tourist & Mrs. Pollifax Pursued. Her
autobiography is A New Kind of Country
GILMORE, JOHN - Albuquerque author of the nonfiction true-crime books: Cold-Blooded:
the Saga of Charles Schmid, the Notorious "Pied Piper of Tucson",
Laid Bare: a Memoir of Wrecked Lives and the Hollywood Death Trip, Live
Fast, Die Young: Remembering the Short Life of James Dean, Manson: the
Unholy Trail of Charlie & the Family & Severed, the True Story
of the Black Dahlia Murder
GINS, PATRICIA - Albuquerque Tribune Accent Department food writer &
co-editor of New Mexico Prized Recipes From the Albuquerque Tribune’s Great
Green Chili Cooking Classic
GISH, ROBERT - Albuquerque Cherokee native, editor, critic & biographer of HARVEY FERGUSSON,
PAUL HORGAN
& ERNA
FERGUSSON; short story author of Bad Boys & Black Sheep:
Fateful Tales From the West, First Horses & novelist of When
Coyote Howls. He is the director of the California Polytechnic’s Ethnic
Studies Department & is also included in Returning the Gift
GOBER, JAMES R. - retired Army colonel, Siemen’s plant manager & Albuquerque author
of his grandfather’s biography, Cowboy Justice: Tale of a Texas Lawman, Jim
Gober
GODFREY, KATHRYN - Albuquerque author of the Casa Angelica
Cookbook*
GOECKEL,
LAWRENCE -
Albuquerque-raised, career Air Force officer at Kirtland Air Force Base, poetry
editor of Blue Mesa Review, &
who’s included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960
p. 487+
GOLDFRANK, ESTHER - NM anthropologist & editor of The Artist of "Isleta
Paintings" in Pueblo Society & Isleta Paintings
GOMEZ, "JEAN" IMOGENE M. - Albuquerque retired nurse, volunteer
educator, co-founder of the Respiratory Patient Travel Center & author of Living
and Traveling With Oxygen
GONZALES, EDWARD - Albuquerque North Valley-raised, now Santa Fe muralist, painter,
illustrator of Farolitos for Abuelo & The Farolitos of Christmas;
& co-author of Spirit Ascendant: the Art and Life of Patrocino Barela
GONZALES, FELIPE C. - Albuquerque retired educator & author of the autobiographical
novel, Recess Is Not Forever, his story of the new world of first grade,
during the Great Depression
GONZALES, PATRISIA - Ft. Worth-born, journalist, former UNM
journalism professor, wife of fellow journalist Roberto Rodriguez, with whom
she's written a syndicated column, Column of the Americas. In
1998, the human rights office of Albuquerque gave Gonzales & Rodriguez its
annual human rights award. She has been interested in Native American
cultures & the physical & spiritual aspects of traditional
healing. She’s also written The Mud People: Anonymous Heroes of
Mexico's Emerging Human Rights Movement*. Gonzales is a founding
member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists & conducts
writing circles using journal writing & natural medicine to promote
self-healing.
GONZALES-BERRY, ERLINDA - former Albuquerque chairperson of UNM's
Department of Spanish & Portuguese, now chairwoman of Ethnic Studies at
Oregon State University, bilingual novelist of Paletitas de Guayaba,
short story author, editor & contributor to Paso Por Aqui &
co-editor of The Contested Homeland: a Chicano History of New Mexico
& Las Mujeres Hablan. For more information, see also: Infinite
Divisions & Voces: an Anthology
GONZALEZ, JAMES - Albuquerque teacher, who is included in Voces: an Anthology of
Nuevo Mexicano Writers
GONZÁLEZ, NANCIE L. SOLIEN - Albuquerque historian, researcher, author
of The Spanish-Americans of New Mexico: a Heritage of Pride & who is
included in New Mexico, Past and Present; a Historical Reader
GOODELL, LARRY - Roswell-born, now, Placitas author,
performance artist & poet of Fire Cracker Soup: Poems & Here
On Earth: 53 Sonnets; some of his other work can be found in In Company:
an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 105+, New Mexico Poetry
Renaissance & Voices From the Rio Grande
GOTTLIEB, LYNN - Albuquerque rabbi & author of She Who Dwells Within: a Feminist
Vision of a Renewed Judaism; she is also included in Another Desert:
Jewish Poetry of New Mexico
GOULD, JANICE - Albuquerque Maidu poet & author of Beneath My Heart* & Earthquake
Weather: Poems. She is also included
in Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of
North America, Returning the Gift & Unsettling America
GOULD, STEVEN C. - Albuquerque author of the intelligent, teleportation novel, Jumper
(named by the American Library Association, a Best Book for Young Adults) &
it’s sequel, Reflex; an alternate reality novel, Wildside; a
medieval, earth-colony novel, Helm (note the NM place-names); Blind
Waves, an adventure/romance about the effects of the melting of the polar
ice caps & the resultant relocation of millions of people; & co-author
with his wife, LAURA J. MIXON, of an
excellent environmental thriller, Greenwar
GOURLEY, PAUL & GAIL - Albuquerque physicist & authors of Protect
Your Life In the Sun
GRAEBNER, GRUBB - Los Alamos & Albuquerque playwright; one of his plays can be found
in New Mexico Plays
GRAMBLING, JEFFREY A. - co-editor of Albuquerque Country II: New Mexico Geological Society Thirty- Third Annual Field Conference, November 4-6, 1982
GRAMMER, MAURINE - Albuquerque anthropologist, teacher, appraiser of Indian arts & crafts, & collector of Native American folktales: The Bear That Turned White: & Other Native Tales. She’s also the novelist of the children’s mystery, The Navajo Brothers and the Stolen Herd, set on the Alamo Band Indian Reservation
GRASSHAM, JOHN W. - Albuquerque Museum Curator of History, president of the Historical
Society of New Mexico & author who is included in Essays in
Twentieth-Century New Mexico History
GRAY PANTHER, ALYSIA - former Albuquerque writer who is included in the humor collection, More
Mirth of a Nation: the Best Contemporary Humor
GREENLEAF, RICHARD E. - Albuquerque authority on the Spanish Inquisition in the Americas,
author of The Mexican Inquisition of the Sixteenth Century &
recipient of the NM Endowment for the Humanities’ 2003 Lifetime Achievements in
the Humanities Award
GREENSPAN, ELAINE - Albuquerque former teacher & author of articles & books on
teaching, including, Teacher’s Survival Guide
GREGER, C. SHANA - Bernalillo illustrator of the novel, The Boy Who Spoke Colors; adapter & illustrator of Cry of the Benubird: an Egyptian Creation Story & Fifth and Final Sun: an Ancient Aztec Myth
GREGG, ANDREW K. - Albuquerque author of Drums of Yesterday: the Forts of New Mexico
& New Mexico in the Nineteenth Century; a Pictorial History. For further information, see also TOM VINEGAR
GREGG, ANDY, SR. - Albuquerque author of Great Rabbit and the Long-Tailed Wildcat
GREGORY, GEORGEANN - Native American author who teaches at UNM
& who is included in Neon Pow-Wow
GRESHAM, SHIRLEY - Albuquerque poet & author of Recovery:
Conquering Depression With Spirituality and Poetry*
GRIFFIN, JOAN - Albuquerque author of The It's Just Lunch
Guide to Dating in Albuquerque & director of the “It's Just Lunch”
office. She & her team coordinate thousands of dates each year. She also
hosts the Single Life on KKNS-AM Radio.
GRISSOM, THOMAS - Sandia National Laboratory poet of One
Spring More & Other Truths
GROVE, FRED -
prolific, Albuquerque, Silver City & Tucson winner of two Wrangler Awards
from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, five Spur Awards from the Western
Writers of America; & the Levi Strauss' Golden Saddleman Award;
& author of popular, often funny, 19th century westerns, including: Destiny
Valley (set in the Gila), Distance
of Ground (a mystery set in
Ruidoso), Far Trumpet (a western, involving Apache Indians in the Black
Range), Man On a Red Horse (set in Mexico during the time of Emperor
Maximilian & Benito Juárez), Phantom Warrior* (a western, involving
the Apache & Victorio, set in Luna County), Running Horses (a
horseracing novel, set in Ruidoso) & Trail of Rogues (involving the
Butterfield Stage in NM)
GROVES, MELODY - NM native, Albuquerque public school
teacher, screen playwright, country-western band member, bull rider &
author of the exciting Western, set in NM Territory: The Quest, under
the name, MESA DEAN
GUGGINO, PATTY - Los Lunas scholar & contributor to Heroes
of the Rio Abajo: Stories of the Brave Men and Women in Valencia County History
GUNTZLEMAN, JOAN - Albuquerque assistant professor of
clinical psychiatry at UNM & author of Blessed Grieving*
GURULÉ, BILL F. - author of Fleeting Shadows & Faint Echoes of Las Huertas
GUTIERREZ, RAMON - Albuquerque-born & raised, now University of California, San Diego
professor & award-winning author of When Jesus Came the Corn Mothers
Went Away, co-editor of Feasts & Celebrations in North American
Ethnic Communities; a contributor to Home Altars of Mexico, Nuevomexicano
Cultural Legacy: Forms, Agencies & Discourse, Reconstructing a
Chicano/a Literary Heritage & The Road to Aztlan: Art From a Mythic
Homeland
GUZMÁN, CAROL - Albuquerque executive director of the
Hispanic Culture Foundation, author included in Flow of the River/Corre el
Río & co-editor of The New Mexico Directory of Hispanic Culture
GWIN, MINROSE - UNM English professor & co-editor of Literature
of the American South
HACKETT, JAN MICHELE see JAN KEROUAC
HAEDERLE, MICHAEL - Albuquerque correspondent for People
Magazine & free-lance author
HAHN, LIANG-SHIN - Taiwan-born, UNM professor of mathematics
& author of Complex Numbers and Geometry
HAIN, PAUL L. - former UNM professor of political science
& co-author of New Mexico Government & State and Local
Government in New Mexico
HAINSFURTHER, STEPHANIE - a freelance writer in Albuquerque,
contributing writer for Gardening How-To
magazine & author of Pocket Gardening for Your Outdoor Living Spaces:
Tips for Creating the Perfect Garden in Small Places* & co-author with Emily Esterson of Covering
the Business Beat: Strategies for Publishing What You Write*
HALE, SUSAN - Albuquerque musician & author of Song
and Silence: Voicing the Soul: on the Therapeutic Use of the Voice
HALEY, MICHAEL C. - Albuquerque-born, Los Alamos-raised, now Parker, CO western novelist
of Durango Gold & Gold of El Negro, both set in northern NM
HALL, CHARLES JAMES - Albuquerque physicist & author of Millennial Hospitality, Millennial
Hospitality II: The World We Knew & Millennial Hospitality III: The
Road Home, etiquette books for the 21st century, which suggest how we might
interact with aliens. They were inspired by his experiences as a weather
observer in the USAF during the mid 1960’s
HALL, G. EMLEN - law professor at UNM & author of Four
Leagues of Pecos: a Legal History of the Pecos Grant, 1800-1933 & High
and Dry: the Texas-New Mexico Struggle for the Pecos River
HALL, LORETTA - Albuquerque former high school teacher, now a freelance writer &
technical writing instructor. Among many other writings, she wrote Underground
Buildings: More Than Meets the Eye
HALL, RUTH K. - Albuquerque biographer of the blind
musician who wrote the NM State Song: A Place of Her Own: the Story of
Elizabeth Garrett; co-author of First Ladies of New Mexico; poet who
is included in Earth Chant, Sandscript p. 112 & Turquoise
Land & a northern NM Living Treasure
HALLIBURTON, JUDITH - Albuquerque author of Raising Rover:
Breed by Breed Training From Afghans to Yorkies
HAMILTON, KERSTEN (K.R.) - Albuquerque author of the children’s
natural history title, The Butterfly Book
HAMMOND, BARBARA KLINE - a Corrales cancer survivor & meditation
master. As executive director of the Cancer Diagnosis Survival Group, she seeks
to help cancer patients & their families manage the social & financial
impact of cancer & reclaim their lives. She holds a doctorate in spiritual
studies with emphasis on transformational healing & is author of Cancer’s
Gifts: Meditations o Being, Healing, & Forgiving
HARBERT, NANCY - former Albuquerque Journal reporter, editor of the New
Mexico Lawyer, & travel author of New Mexico (a Compass American
Guide)
HARDIN, HELEN - Albuquerque Santa Clara artist recognized
for her masterful designs in acrylics.
Her mother was the famous Pueblo artist, Pablita Velarde. She was also the illustrator of the
children’s stories Juan, the Champ & Runaway Boy: Raton Jemez. She died in 1984 of cancer.
HARJO, JOY - Creek Muscogee former UNM creative writing professor, educated at the
Institute of American Indian Arts, now Honolulu jazz saxophonist, screenwriter,
artist, award-winning poet of How We Became Human, In Mad Love and
War, A Map to the Next World, She Had Some Horses & Woman
Who Fell From the Sky; & editor of Reinventing the Enemy’s Language.
For more information, see also: Every Day is a Good Day: Reflections by
Contemporary Indigenous Women, Getting Over the Color Green:
Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest, Harper’s
Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry, I Tell You Now:
Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers, Intimate Nature: the
Bond Between Women & Animals, Multicultural Southwest: a Reader,
New American Poets of the '90s, New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, The Practice of Peace, Pueblo Imagination: Landscape &
Memory in the Photography of Lee Marmon, Reinventing the Enemy’s
Language, Remembered Earth, Returning the Gift, Saludos!:
Poemas de Nuevo Mexico, Sisters of the Earth, p. 3+, Songs
From This Earth on Turtle's Back, Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native
American Short Stories, Unsettling America, Voices From the Rio
Grande & Words in the Blood
HARMS, PAULINE KAUL - Sandia Park former teacher, businesswoman, poet of the collection: First
Light; who is also included in Earth Chant, Sandscript p. 110
& Turquoise Land
HARRAH, MADGE -
Albuquerque playwright, artist & illustrator of PAULA G. PAUL’s Geronimo Chino,
& children’s author of the prize-winning historical novel Honey Girl,
novelist of Comet Luck, My Brother, My Enemy & a mystery: No Escape. She’s also the biographer of the Civil War
ragtime composer & musician: Blind Boone: Piano Prodigy; & has a
short story included in Night Terrors: Stories of Shadow & Substance
HARRIGAN, LANA - Albuquerque historical romance novelist of Acoma, a Novel of the
Spanish Conquest of New Mexico (about the meeting of Oñate & the Acoma
people) & the companion novel, K’atsina: a Novel of Rebellion
HARRINGTON, E. R. - Albuquerque teacher & author of The Albuquerque Public Schools
& History of the Albuquerque High School, 1879 -1955
HARRIS, ALEX - part-time Albuquerque & El Valle of Chamisal resident,
photographer, director of the Center for Documentary Photography at Duke
University, winner of fellowships from the Rockefeller & John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundations; & author of Red White Blue and God
Bless You; & who is included in Essential Landscape: the New Mexico
Photographic Survey
HARRIS, DALE - Mountainair nurse practitioner, clay & mixed media artist &
poet who is included in Practice of Peace
HARRIS, FRED - Albuquerque professor, former Oklahoma Representative to Washington,
Presidential candidate, husband of LADONNA,
author of his memoirs: Potomac Fever & a 1930’s mystery series set
in Oklahoma: Coyote Revenge & its sequel Easy Pickin’s. He also wrote a coming of age novel, set in
WWII Oklahoma, Following the Harvest
HARRIS, LADONNA - Comanche president of Americans for Indian Opportunity, wife of FRED & author of her autobiography, LaDonna
Harris: a Comanche Life. She’s also
a contributor to Every Day is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary
Indigenous Women
HARRIS, MARY BIERMAN - Albuquerque author of Basic Statistics for Behavioral Science
Research*
HARRISON, BABS - Cerrillos co-author of Exploring the New Mexico Wine Country
HARRISON, GARY - UNM professor & co-editor of Bedford
Anthology of World Literature, Vol. 1: The Ancient World, Vol. 2:
The Middle Period, Vol. 3: The Early Modern World, Vol. 4: The
Eighteenth Century, Volume 5: The Nineteenth Century, 1789-1917
& Vol. 6: The Twentieth Century
HARRISON, PETER D. - Albuquerque research professor at UNM’s Maxwell Museum of
Anthropology, photographer, anthropologist, author who is included in The
Spirit That Wants Me & author of The Lords of Tikal, Rulers of an
Ancient Maya City
HARVEY, RICHARD - Albuquerque actor & author of Blackjack the Smart Way, Cutting
Edge Blackjack & New Ways to Win More at Blackjack*
HATFIELD, JIM - Albuquerque former mortician, circulation manager for the Albuquerque
Journal & Albuquerque Tribune, & mystery author of Embalmers
and Corsages
HAUTH, KATHERINE - Rio Rancho author of the excellent children’s natural history book, Night
Life of the Yucca: the Story of a Flower and a Moth
HAYENGA, BRANT - Albuquerque photographer & author of New Mexico Mountain Bike
Guide & The New Mexico Mountain Bike Guide
HAYES, ALDEN C. - Albuquerque
archaeologist, rancher in Cochise Co., AZ, National Park Service archaeologist
& author of The Four Churches of Pecos; co-author of Archeological
Surveys of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico & Contributions to Gran Quivira
Archeology: Gran Quivira National Monument, New Mexico; & contributor
to Prehistory & History in the Southwest & Ute Tales
HAYNES, C. VANCE (CALEB VANCE) - co-author of Geochronology of Sandia Cave
HEFLIN, JEAN & BILL - Albuquerque xeriscape enthusiasts & author (he’s the photographer)
of Penstemons: the Beautiful Beardtongues of New Mexico
HELM, GRETCHEN - Albuquerque licensed marriage & family therapist who specializes
in sexual abuse recovery, leads workshops on personal empowerment; & is the
author of How to Claim Your Power*, which is aimed at therapists
HENDREN, AARON BLAYLOCK - Albuquerque fantasy author of Something In the Water
HENDRICKS, PAULA - Corrales co-author & photographer of innovative books on building:
Timber Reduced Energy Efficient Homes & Tire House Book
HENDRICKS, RICK - Adjunct
Professor in the Department of History at UNM, former Las Cruces associate
editor of the Vargas Project (co-editor of Blood on the Boulders: the
Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1694-97, By Force of Arms:
the Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1691-93, Letters From
the New World: Selected Correspondence of Don Diego de Vargas To His Family,
1675-1706 & To the Royal Crown Restored: the Journals of Don Diego
de Vargas, New Mexico, 1692-94), editor of New Mexico Prenuptial
Investigations from the Archivos Historicos del Arzobispado de Durango,
1800-1893; co-editor of Navajos in 1705: Roque Madrid’s Campaign Journal,
& Two Hearts, One Soul: the Correspondence of the Condesa de Galve,
1688-96. He is also included in New
Mexican Lives: Profiles & Historical Stories & contributor to Archaeologies
of the
HENDRICKSON, LINNEA - Albuquerque UNM professor, member of the national Caldecott committee
& author of Children’s Literature: a Guide to the Criticism
HEPNER, LISA - former Albuquerque resident & editor
of Peaceful Earth: Spiritual Perspectives on Hope & Healing Beyond
Terrorism*
HEREFORD, JOSEPH P., JR. - Albuquerque long-time photographer, well-known researcher, railroad
historian & author of Rotary Snowplows on the Cumbres & Toltec
Scenic Railroad
HERRERA-TENORIO, FRANCISCA - Albuquerque radio host & author who is
included in Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers
HERRMAN, BERT - Tajique author of Mountainair, N.M.:
Centennial History, 1903-2003 which was written to celebrate Mountainair’s
100th birthday, in 2003. It includes oral histories, &
covers Abo, Gran Quivira, Manzano, Punta de Agua, Scholle & Willard
HERSH, REUBEN - Albuquerque UNM professor emeritus of mathematics, co-author of Descartes’
Dream & Mathematical Experience (for which he co-won the 1980s
National Book Award)
HERSHBERGER, KEITH - Albuquerque playwright & director
HERTZOG, PETER - author of A Directory of New Mexico Desperados, The Gringo
& Greaser: Scene, Manzano, New Mexico, Time, 1883-1884, La Fonda :
The Inn of Santa Fe, Legal Hangings. Scene: New Mexico. Time: 1861-1923,
Little Known Facts About Billy, The Kid, Old Town, Albuquerque
& Outlaws of New Mexico
HESSE, ZORA G. - Albuquerque author of Southwestern Indian Recipe Book: Apache,
Papago, Pima, Pueblo and Navajo
HESTER, ELLIOTT NEAL - a flight attendant, his first-hand
account of Plane Insanity: a Flight
Attendant's Tale of Sex, Rage, & Queasiness at 30,000 Feet,
tells about the crazy occurrences he witnessed.
His stories feature badly behaved coworkers, equipment failure, cranky
captains, sick & scared passengers & turbulence. He’s a bestselling author, award-winning
travel writer, former Salon.com columnist; & author of “Continental
Drifter,” a syndicated travel column carried by the San Francisco Chronicle, The
Miami Herald, New York Newsday,
& other daily newspapers. He now lives in Miami Beach, Florida.
HEY, NIGEL - Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, English astronomer, former administrator
at Sandia National Laboratory & science author of Solar System
HIBBEN, ELEANOR B. - wife of FRANK & author
of her autobiography, In Outer Places: Adventures With Frank C. Hibben
HIBBEN, FRANK CUMMING - Albuquerque anthropologist, discoverer of Sandia Cave, UNM professor
& author of Digging Up America, Hunting American Bears, Hunting
American Lions, Kiva Art of the Anasazi, The Lost Americans,
& Prehistoric Man in Europe
HIERONYMOUS, STAN - Rio Rancho editor at Real Beer Magazine & co-author of Frank
Applegate of Santa Fe: Artist & Preservationist
HIGGINS, MARY RISING - retired Albuquerque 5th-grade teacher & poet of Red Table*
& Oclock* & who is included in In Company: an Anthology of
New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 368+ & Queen Anne's Lace: Poems
HIGHTOWER, GLORIA - Albuquerque ENMU & WNMU-educated, mystery novelist of The Cotton Rope Strangler, set in Albuquerque
HILL, MIKE - Albuquerque outdoorsman, member of the Wilderness Centre, & author
of Guide to the Hiking Areas of New Mexico & Hikers and Climbers
Guide to the Sandias
HILLERMAN, ANNE - daughter of TONY, Albuquerque Journal staff writer & Santa Fe author of a book on ballooning: Ride the Wind: USA to Africa & co-author of The Insider’s Guide to Santa Fe. She’s also written Children’s Guide to Santa Fe, & Done in the Sun: Solar Projects for Children
HILLERMAN, TONY - probably Albuquerque's most popular mystery author & essayist of Best of the West, The Great Taos Bank Robbery, Hillerman Country, Indian Country, Kilroy Was There: a GI's War in Photographs, The Mysterious West, New Mexico, Oxford Book of American Detective Stories, Rio Grande, The Spell of New Mexico, Tierra: Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico, & Seldom Disappointed: a Memoir. The chronology of his excellent Hopi, Zuni & Navajo mysteries, starring the policemen, Joe Leaphorn & Jim Chee is: Blessing Way, Dancehall of the Dead, Listening Woman, People of Darkness, Dark Wind, Ghostway, Skinwalkers, Talking God, Thief of Time, Coyote Waits, Sacred Clowns, Fallen Man, First Eagle, Hunting Badger, Wailing Wind, The Sinister Pig & Skeleton Man. He has also written a mystery set in the Philippines & Southeast Asia: Finding Moon & his first mystery, set partially in NM is Fly on the Wall. For additional information, see Voices From the Rio Grande. He’s also written the beautiful children's book, Boy Who Made Dragonfly: a Zuni Myth & the funny picture book, Buster Mesquite's Cowboy Band
HILLIARD, GEORGE - former southwest NM rancher, mule packer, pilot, instructor at the
University of Albuquerque, now Tucson author of Adios Hachita: Stories of a
New Mexico Town & A Hundred Years of Horse Tracks: the Story of the
Gray Ranch
HINDS, ERV, MD - Dr. Hinds is the founder of the St.
Vincent Pain Management Center in Santa Fe, & the founder & director of
the NM Pain & Spine Center at Presbyterian Hospital in Albuquerque. He is
the author of A Life Larger Than Pain*
HINES, WALTER - the son of Jerry Hines, NMSU Athletic Director & coach, who grew
up on stories of Aggie Greats. He is a graduate of NMSU, a licensed Civil
Engineer who currently lives in Albuquerque, & author of Aggies of the
Pacific War: New Mexico College of A&M & the War with Japan
HINTON, BETTY HUNING -
long-time Albuquerque Public School history teacher & author of several
biographies of relatively unknown but influential Albuquerque women: Albuquerque's
Flower Lady: Rosalie Doolittle, Elizabeth P. Simpson: Menu For Success
(chair of UNM’s Home Economics Department from 1918 to 1952), Lena C.
Clauve: UNM’s First Dean of Women, The Life & Times of the Huning
Family in New Mexico: a Narrative History, Marion Herlihy: Fifty-Two
Years In Banking Or "You Made Me My First Loan!" (at the 1st
National Bank of Belen) & A Modern Florence Nightingale: Martha Campbell
Rehm Brown (a NM nurse)
HOAGLAND, RICHARD - Placitas astronomer, former NASA scientist, founder of Enterprise
Mission, a confederation of people who believe that a civilization once lived
on Mars; & author of The Monuments of Mars: a City of the Edge of
Forever
HOBSON, GEARY - Cherokee/Chickasaw/Quapaw editor, poet, novelist, short story author,
teacher at UNM, who is included in Growing Up Native American, Remembered
Earth, Returning the Gift, & Songs From This Earth On
Turtle’s Back
HODGE, WILLIAM H. - author of The Albuquerque Navajos
HODOBA, (THEODORE) TED - Veguita owner of Desert Moon Nursery, civic planner & author of Growing
Desert Plants, from Windowsill to Garden
HOFFMAN, IAN - former Albuquerque Journal reporter & co-author of A
Convenient Spy: Wen Ho Lee & the Politics of Nuclear Espionage
HOFFMAN, MATTHEW - former Albuquerque free-lance writer & editor of The Doctor’s
Book of Home Remedies for Dogs and Cats & Prevention’s the Healthy
Cook
HOGAN, RAY -
Albuquerque-raised conservationist & prolific & popular western author
who wrote into his 90s: Agony Ridge*, Apache Mountain Justice*, Bounty
Hunter’s Moon, Conger's Woman*, The Copper-Dun Stud (set in
Mogollon), The Cornudas Guns, The Doomsday Bullet, The
Doomsday Marshal (set in Raton & Silver City), The Doomsday Posse,
The Gunmaster*, Guns Along the Mora, Guns of Freedom, The
Hell Merchant* (set in Cimarron & Santa Fe), The Hell Road*, Highroller's
Man*, Jackman's Wolf*, The Jenner Guns*, Killer on the
Warbucket, The Law and Lynchburg (set in Las Vegas), Lawman's
Choice, Lead Reckoning*, Legacy of the Slash M* (set in the
Cimarron River), Man Called Ryker, Man Without a Gun, Marshal
for Lawless, Outlaw's Empire, The Proving Gun, Ragan's Law,
The Raptors (set in Las Cruces), The Rimrocker; a Shawn Starbuck
Western, The Scorpion Killers*, The Searching Guns*, Soldier
In Buckskin (a fictionalized biography of Kit Carson), Solitude's Lawman*
& The Vengeance of Fortuna West, all set in NM
HOGBEN, JOSEPH FORSTER - Albuquerque minister known as "The Buckaroo Priest" &
poet who is included in Sandscript p. 15 & Turquoise Land
HOGNER, DOROTHY
CHILDS - Connecticut owner
of Hemlock Hill Herb Farm, who graduated from UNM & children’s author of
the 1920s story, Santa Fe Caravans*, about Josiah Gregg on the Santa Fe
Trail
HOGNER, NILS - Albuquerque UNM professor, muralist, painter & illustrator of Seeds
By Wind and Water
HOLBROOK, CAREY - Albuquerque editor & columnist of the Health City Sun &
poet who is included in New Mexico In Verse & Signature of the
Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
HOLDEN-RHODES, J.F. - former Los Alamos National Laboratories leader of the Counter Drug
Intelligence Team, adjunct professor at UNM & author of Sharing the
Secrets: Open Source Intelligence and the War On Drugs*
HOLDER, BONNY CELINE - Illinois-raised
Cedar Crest novelist of Heroines of Private Life*, My Erotic
Adventures with Billy the Kid* & Until Proven Innocent*. She’s a co-producer of the videorecording
“Billy the Kid: Quien Es?” for KNME’s Colores
TV program; has a regular feature column, "Eyes of the Beholder," at
backwash.com & reviews CDs for Amazon.com. She also writes under the name PAMELA BROWN
HOOD, FLORA MAE - Albuquerque teacher & author of the Hispanic NM Christmas tale: One
Luminaria for Antonio & the nonfiction children’s book, Living in
Navajoland
HOOKER, VAN DORN - Corrales resident, University Architect for UNM & author of Centuries
of Hands, an Architectural History of St. Francis of Assisi Church
HORGAN, PAUL -
Albuquerque, Roswell & San Patricio's twice-winning Pulitzer historian,
essayist & novelist of Common Heart (set in Albuquerque), Everything
to Live For, Far from Cibola (set in Roswell), Figures in a
Landscape, A Lamp on the Plains* (set in Vrain & Roswell), Main
Line West (set in Albuquerque), Mountain Standard Time (set in
Albuquerque & Roswell), No Quarter Given* (set in Santa Fe), The
Return of the Weed (set in Santa Fe), The Saintmaker's Christmas Eve,
The Thin Mountain Air (set in Albuquerque), Things As They Are
& Under the Sangre de Cristo
HORN, CALVIN - Albuquerque publisher, historian, philanthropist & author of Climbing
a Rainbow: a Family Journey of Discovery, New Mexico’s Troubled Years: the
Story of the Early Territorial Governors & University in Turmoil and
Transition: Crisis Decades at the University of New Mexico; he is also
included in Bicentennial ‘76 - Albuquerque Remembers
HORNER, MARK - Albuquerque author of September
Sacrifice, a true crime book on Girly Chew & Dazien Hossencofft. He
previously worked as an anchor, producer, & award-winning investigative
reporter for KOB-TV & KRQE-TV in Albuquerque
HOROWITZ, ROB - Albuquerque psychologist, family systems expert, & co-author with
his wife, PAM ENGLAND of Birthing From Within
HORSLEY, KATE - Albuquerque TVI history & English
teacher, & author of three historical novels set in NM: Careless Love,
or, the Land of Promise (Thomas Hall, a young 19th century
Bostonian newspaperman fascinated by the Wild West, who finds a new home in
Albuquerque), Crazy Woman (captured by the Apaches while on a religious
mission, Sara Franklin learns the ways of her captors, & finds herself
caught between 2 worlds), & A Killing in New Town (in Territorial Las
Vegas, Eliza Pelham searches for her stolen children, aided by an Apache man
who reads Melville, & La Llorona), which won the 1996 Western States Book
Award for Fiction. She’s also written 2
Irish novels: Confessions of a Pagan Nun & The Changeling of Finnistuath,
set in 5th century Ireland
HOUSEN, MARTHA - Edgewood author, former manager of Albuquerque’s Sunshine Theatre
& mystery novelist of Murder in the Sunshine, set in the old
Sunshine Theater in downtown Albuquerque
HOUSTON, JEFFREY D. - UNM School of Medicine co-author of Fundamentals of Fluoroscopy*
HOWARD, R. L. - Albuquerque author of Journey Together:
Protecting Children from Sexual Abuse*, the founder of VOICE: Victory Over
Incest & Child Exploitation, a nonprofit, grassroots organization whose
mission is to stop child sexual abuse by increasing society awareness &
encouraging legislative reform
HOWARTH, ENID - Albuquerque private-practice counselor & co-author of The Joy
of Imperfection: the Optimist’s Guide to Being Ordinary
HOWDEN, BILL - Albuquerque native, former Episcopal priest, first mayor of Rio
Rancho, & author of Meditation: a Handbook
HOWE, KATHLEEN STEWART - Albuquerque curator of prints & photographs at the UNM Art Museum
& interim associate director; essayist included in Revealing the Holy
Land: the Photographic Exploration of Palestine*, editor of Intersections:
Lithography, Photography, & the Traditions of Printmaking &
contributor to Gone, Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains
HSI, STEVEN D. - Albuquerque family doctor, husband of BETH CORBIN-HSI & co-author with her & JIM BELSHAW of Closing the Chart: a Dying Physician Examines Family, Faith & Medicine
HUCKELL, BRUCE B. - senior research coordinator of the Maxwell Museum & author of Of
Marshes and Maize: Preceramic Agricultural Settlements in the Cienega Valley*
HUETTER, REBEKKAH - Albuquerque author of In Search of My Heart: an Encouraging Story
of Healing From Childhood Abuse*
HUGHES, D. T. - author of Lullaby and Goodnight, about Darci Kayleen Pierce, an Albuquerque woman who strangled a pregnant woman & stole her unborn baby
HUGHES, DEBRA - Albuquerque-raised, now Santa Fe writing teacher, journalist,
essayist, & short-story author; she is included in Tierra: Contemporary
Short Fiction of New Mexico & Walking the Twilight: Women Writers of
the Southwest
HUGHES, MEREDITH & TOM - Albuquerque founders of the Food Museum
& authors of the children’s stories: Buried Treasure: Roots and Tubers,
Cool as a Cucumber, Hot as a Pepper: Fruit and Vegetables, Glorious
Grasses: the Grains & Stinky and Stringy: Stem and Bulb Vegetables
HUNING, ERNESTINE - wife of FRANZ
HUNING & one of the few women to write a diary of her
experiences on the
HUNING, FRANZ - Albuquerque’s earliest prominent Anglo merchant, businessman &
author of his memoirs: Trader on the Santa Fe Trail
HUNT, BONNIE JO & LAWRENCE J. - Albuquerque co-authors of several
historical novels about the 1st encounters between the Lakota Sioux &
Europeans: Cayuse Country*, Death on the Umatilla*, Land
Without a Country*, Last Rendezvous*, Lone Wolf Clan* & Raven
Wing*. She is Standing Rock Lakota, opera singer, a former member of the
San Francisco Opera Company, the artistic director & president of the
Artists of Indian America. They visit Native American reservations, where they
work to revive the dying traditions of native art.
HUNTER, NORA YAZZIE - Albuquerque Navajo author & clay sculptor, who is included in Reinventing
the Enemy’s Language
HURLEY, WILSON
- Albuquerque realistic landscape painter & author of Wilson Hurley: a
Retrospective Exhibition & Wilson Hurley: an Exhibition of Oil
Paintings
HURT, MARY DARDEN - co-author of "That's My Bank!", about the Sunwest
Bank of Albuquerque
HURTADO, A. MAGDALENA - Venezuelan-born, UNM assistant professor of evolutionary medicine
& author who is included in I’ve Been Gone Far Too Long, Field Study
Fiascoes and Expedition Disasters
HUTCHISON, RON - Albuquerque former newspaper editor, corporate public relations
executive & novelist of Santa Fe Crazy
HUTTON, PAUL ANDREW - professor of history at UNM, executive director of the Western
Historical Association, editor of New Mexico Historical Review & The
Custer Reader, Frontier & Region: Essays in Honor of Martin Ridge
& Soldiers West: Biographies From the Military Frontier; &
award-winning author of Phil Sheridan and His Army
HUYLER, FRANK -
IKAS, KARIN ROSA - lecturer & graduate researcher for
Chicano studies at UNM, the Berkeley & Santa Barbara campuses of the
University of California, postdoctoral fellow & lecturer at the University
of Wurzburg, Germany; & editor of Chicana Ways: Conversations with Ten
Chicana Writers
IMHOFF-KERR, ANISHA - Albuquerque author of her autobiography Roller
Coaster Days*, about her childhood & adolescence with bipolar disorder
INGRAM, JERRY - Albuquerque Choctaw painter &
illustrator of They Put on Masks by Byrd Baylor
IVEY, MARK - Sandia Labs engineer & poet who’s
included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p.
513+
IZARD, RALPH - UNM historical geographer & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
JABLONSKI, JOE (JOSEPH R.) - Albuquerque author of Implementing TQM:
Competing In the Nineties Through Total Quality Management & Dating,
a Practical Guide for Men*
JACOBSEN, JOEL - Albuquerque assistant NM attorney general, specializing in criminal
appeals & author of Such Men as Billy the Kid: the Lincoln County War
Reconsidered
JACOBSON, ELIZABETH - Cerrillos teacher & poet who is included in Written With a
Spoon: a Poet’s Cookbook & XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience
JAKSHA, LAWRENCE H. - Albuquerque Seismological Laboratory geophysicist & contributor to
New Mexico in Maps
JAMES, BETSY - Placitas author & illustrator of many popular children's novels
& picture books, including Mary Ann & Mud Family; &
the highly praised young adult Native American fantasy companion novels: Long
Night Dance & Dark Heart
JAMESON, ELIZABETH - UNM associate professor of history, editor of New Mexico Historical
Review & co-editor of The Women’s West & Writing the
Range: Race, Class and Culture in the Women’s West
JARAMILLO, MARI-LUCI - Las Vegas-born, now Albuquerque author of her memoirs, Madame
Ambassador: the Shoemaker's Daughter, UNM professor & President
Carter’s Ambassador to Honduras
JARAMILLO, PAULINE - Los Lunas-born & raised, retired elementary school teacher in San
Antonio, & contributor to Heroes of the Rio Abajo: Stories of the Brave
Men and Women in Valencia County History & Genealogical and
Historical Data of the Jaramillo Family
JENKINS, STARR - former Albuquerque parachuting firefighter & author of Smoke-Jumpers,
‘49: Brothers In the Sky*
JEYS, GENE H. - Albuquerque novelist of And Still the Wind, a Civil War
historical novel, set in Montana*
JOHN, BETTY - Albuquerque editor of Libby: the Sketches, Letters and Journal of
Libby Beaman
JOHN-STEINER, VERA - psycholinguist, UNM professor & author of Creative
Collaboration & Notebooks of the Mind: Explorations of Thinking
JOHNSON, BYRON & SHARON - former Albuquerque Museum history curator
& authors of Early Albuquerque: a Photographic History, Gilded
Palaces of Shame: Albuquerque’s Red Light Districts, & Old Town,
Albuquerque, N.M., a Guide to Its History and Architecture
JOHNSON, CARYN - former Albuquerquean & author of The African American’s Guide
to Financial Fitness*
JOHNSON, DAVID M. - retired UNM creative writing &
mythology professor, co-editor of Bedford Anthology of World Literature,
editor of Talking From the Heart: an Anthology of Men’s Poetry*, poet of
Altar to an Unknown God, & who is included in In Company: an
Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 186+, Sandscript p. 35, Spirit
That Wants Me & Voices From the Rio Grande
JOHNSON, GEORGE - Albuquerque-raised, Highland High School graduate, former New York
Times' science editor, now Santa Fe science author of Fire in the Mind,
In the Palaces of Memory, Machinery of the Mind, A Shortcut
Through Time: the Path to the Quantum Computer & Strange Beauty:
Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in 20th Century Physics
JOHNSON, JUDITH - former Albuquerquean, now assistant professor of 20th century US
history at Wichita State University, author of The Penitentiaries in
Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah from 1900 to 1980, & she is
included in Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico History
JOHNSON, LELAND - author of
Sandia National Laboratories: a History of Exceptional Service in the
National Interest
JOHNSTONE, WILL - artist, computer programmer & painter of abstract art in Denver. He began painting southwestern landscapes at the age of 14 & began programming FORTRAN at UNM. His paintings are now hard-edged abstracts & his programming is now for distribution on the World Wide Web. He’s sculpted in metal, wood & stone, designed & built adobe homes, carved decorative wooden lintels & cabinets, designed & manufactured silver & gold jewelry, illustrated publications & technical manuals, created art for the web, & continues to paint. He’s the author & illustrator of the children’s book Hey! What Do You Do With a Dinosaur?*, set outside Albuquerque
JOJOLA, TED - UNM professor who is included in Multicultural
Southwest: a Reader
JONES, BERENICE NELSON - Albuquerque author of her autobiography, A Kiss on My Finger
JONES, PRESTON - award-winning playwright of A Texas Trilogy,
actor, Albuquerque-born, educated at UNM, & son of James
Brooks, a former NM lieutenant governor
JONES MEADOWS, KAREN - Placitas playwright of Harriet's Return, about Harriet Tubman
JOSTE, NANCY - Albuquerque physician, assistant professor
at the UNM Department of Pathology, director of the Division of Cytopathology
at the UNM Health Sciences Center & TriCore Reference Laboratories, &
co-author of Abnormal Pap Smears: What Every Woman Needs to Know
JUDGE, MIKE - Albuquerque
creator of the “Beavis and Butt-head” & “King of the Hill” cartoon sitcoms
JUDGE, W. JAMES (WILLIAM
JAMES) - anthropologist
affiliated with the Fort Burgwin Research Center, chief of the Division of
Cultural Research (Chaco Center) of the National Park Service, associate
professor of anthropology at UNM & author of Paleoindian Occupation of
the Central Rio Grande Valley In New Mexico; co-author of Archeological
Surveys of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico; & co-editor of Astronomy &
Ceremony in the Prehistoric Southwest, Chaco & Hohokam : Prehistoric
Regional Systems in the American Southwest & Recent Research on
Chaco Prehistory. He’s also a
contributor to In Search of
Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma & New Light on Chaco Canyon
JULYAN, (BOB) ROBERT -
Albuquerque author on geology, outdoor living, history, former columnist for
the Albuquerque Journal, author of Best Hikes With Children in New
Mexico, New Mexico's Continental Divide Trail: the Official Guide, New
Mexico’s Wilderness Areas: the Complete Guide, Place Names of New Mexico,
co-editor of Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains & contributor to New
Mexico in Maps
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF ALBUQUERQUE - authors of Simply Simpatico & A Taste of Enchantment:
Treasured Recipes from the Junior League of Albuquerque
JUSSAWALLA, FEROZA - UNM English professor & poet of Chiffon Saris*, editor of Conversations
with V.S. Naipaul, & co-editor of Interviews With Writers of the
Post-Colonial World*
KALLOCH, EUNICE - Albuquerque leader in local & state beautification efforts &
co-author of First Ladies of New Mexico
KAMMER, DAVID - Albuquerque historian of NM architecture & co-author of La
Tierra Amarilla: Its History, Architecture, and Cultural Landscape
KARNI, SHLOMO - Corrales teacher & author of Dictionary
of Basic Biblical Hebrew: Hebrew-English*
KATZ, SALI BARNETT - Albuquerque-born, NM-raised, now Tucson graphics artist, interior
designer & author of Hispanic Furniture: an American Collection from the
Southwest
KEATING, KATHLEEN - Associate Professor at UNM's General
Library, & co-author of Library Instruction: a Peer Tutoring Model*
KELEHER, WILLIAM A. - early Albuquerque lawyer, historian & author of The Fabulous
Frontier, Maxwell Land Grant, Memoirs, 1892-1969: a New Mexico
Item, New Mexicans I Knew: Memoirs, 1892-1969, Turmoil In New
Mexico & Violence In Lincoln County. He is also included in New
Mexico, Past & Present: a Historical Reader
KELLER, G. RANDY -
co-editor of Basins of the Rio Grande Rift: Structure, Stratigraphy, &
Tectonic Setting
KELLER, TEDDY - Albuquerque author of magazine articles, a novel, Treason Trail & co-author of Fifty-Niners: a Denver Diary
KELLEY, REEVE SPENCER - magazine author, former caretaker of the Ernie Pyle Library in
Albuquerque, & poet who is included in Signature of the Sun; Southwest
Verse, 1900-1950
KELLEY, VINCENT COOPER - Albuquerque
author of Albuquerque; Its Mountains, Valley, Water, & Volcanoes, Geology
of Albuquerque Basin, New Mexico, Volcanoes & Related Basalts of
Albuquerque Basin, New Mexico, co-author of Geology of Sandia Mountains
& Vicinity, & co-editor of Guidebook of East-Central New Mexico:
New Mexico Geological Society 23rd Annual Field Conference
KELLY, LYNN - former Albuquerque resident & author of Don’t Ask for the Dead
Man’s Golf Clubs: Advice for Friends When Someone Dies*
KELTZ, IRIS - Albuquerque teacher & author of Scrapbook of a Taos Hippie:
Tribal Tales From the Heart of a Cultural Revolution
KEMPER, TROXEY -
long-time Tucumcari,
KENT, DICK - photographer
& author of Sandia Peak Tram: a Picture Story
KEPPLER, KEN - member of the Albuquerque Cajun band, Bayou Seco & author
who is included in Spirit That Wants Me
KERN, ROBERT - UNM Iberian & modern European history professor & editor of Building
New Mexico: the Experience of a Carpenter’s Union in the Southwest, Labor
in New Mexico: Unions, Strikes, and Social History Since 1881, Regions
of Spain; & he is included in Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico
History
KEROUAC, JAN -
Albuquerque unacknowledged daughter of Jack Kerouac, poet, novelist &
author of the autobiographical novel, Baby Driver*, set in partially in
NM
KERRY, ROWENA J. - Albuquerque poet & author who is included in The Spirit That
Wants Me
KESSELL, JOHN - Albuquerque professor emeritus of history at UNM, editor of New
Mexico Historical Review, award-winning Southwestern historian of Friars,
Soldiers, and Reformers, Kiva, Cross, and Crown, The Missions of
New Mexico Since 1776 & Spain in the Southwest: a Narrative History
of Colonial New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, & California; & co-author
of Spirit and Vision: Images of Ranchos de Taos Church. He is also the
editor of the letters & journals of Don Diego de Vargas: Blood on the
Boulders, By Force of Arms, Remote Beyond Compare, A
Settling of Accounts, That Disturbances Cease & To the Royal
Crown Restored
KIEFER, JILL - Albuquerque artist, educator, illustrator, video editor, producer
& co-editor of The Spirit That Wants Me
KIMBALL, RICHARD W. - Albuquerque journalist & author who is included in Southwest
Tales: a Contemporary Collection
KINFORD, BOB - Rio Rancho author of his memoirs, Cowboy Romance: of Horsesweat and
Hornflies
KING, LESLEY S. - Albuquerque author of Frommer's Great Outdoor Guide to Arizona
& New Mexico & New Mexico for Dummies
KLUCKHOHN, CLYDE - one of the pre-eminent figures in American anthropology, Rhodes
Scholar, former UNM professor of anthropology & author of The Navaho,
Navaho Witchcraft & To the Foot of the Rainbow: a Tale of
Twenty-Five Hundred Miles of Wandering On Horseback Through the Southwest
Enchanted Land
KNIGHT, LYNN - Las Cruces-born, East Mountain novelist & playwright of among
other plays, "The Night They Stole the Santo Niño", a modern version
of "Los Pastores"
KNIGHT, TONY - editor of Special Shape Rodeo: Kodak Albuquerque International
Balloon Fiesta
KNOWLES, GERALD M. - Albuquerque-raised, Taos teacher who has specialized in various
community-based and distance learning programs, & author of Route 66
Chronicles: Volume I Shadows of the Past Over Route 66 Arizona - New Mexico*
KOEHLER, JIM - Albuquerque retired engineer who has been involved with search &
rescue with the Albuquerque Mountain Rescue Council, & who wrote SAR: We
Have a Mission
KOENIG, KARL P. - Albuquerque photographer, artist & author of Gumoil
Photographic Printing*
KOPISCHKE, KATE - Albuquerque & Cañones free-lance author & graphic designer,
who is included in I’ve Been Gone Far Too Long, Field Study Fiascoes and
Expedition Disasters
KOPP, APRIL - Albuquerque-born, now East Mountain author of Creatures, Critters
and Crawlers of the Southwest
KOPP, KARL - Corrales poet & editor, who is included in Southwest Towards
the Twenty-First Century & Voices From the Rio Grande
KORNEGAY, CHRIS - Albuquerque owner of Strong’s Publishing Co. & author of Strong’s
Math Dictionary and Solution Guide
KOTNY, ROD - Albuquerque author of How to Save Money on Major College Expenses*
KOZIKOWSKI, NANCY - renowned Albuquerque weaver, painter & author of Tapestries,
Painting, Drawings
KRAKOW, DR. BARRY - UNM assistant professor of emergency
medicine, medical director of the Sleep & Human Health Institute in
Albuquerque, & a pioneering sleep expert. He's the author of Insomnia
Cures & co-author of Conquering Bad Dreams and Nightmares
KRAUSE, GREGOR - former editor of Sunset & Albuquerque Magazine,
journalist & author of Albuquerque: a Celebration of Contrasts
KREISCHER, ELSIE - Albuquerque storyteller, creative writing & children's literature
teacher at UNM & the College of Santa Fe; & author of Navaho Magic
of Hunting, a narrative poem; the award-winning biography, Maria Montoya
Martinez, Master Potter & Bigger Than a Button, a picture book
KRENZ, NANCY - Albuquerque craftsperson & co-author of Southwestern Art and
Crafts Projects
KRESNY, HANS & ANN - She is a former high school and college teacher of English, theater
& communications, who has received national recognition for her work in
children's theater. He is a former engineering manager, consultant, former
professional ski instructor, furniture refinisher, building contractor &
architectural designer. Together they wrote Darkness of Dawn which is
set in the Albuquerque area
KRINARD, SUSAN - Albuquerque author of contemporary,
paranormal, futuristic, time travel, romance, & historical paranormal
novels, including the werewolf historical romances: Touch of the Wolf
(set primarily in London, with a New Mexican main character) & its sequel Once
a Wolf (which is set in NM)
KROTH, MICHAEL - UNM adjunct professor & co-author of Transforming
Work: the Five Keys to Achieving Trust, Commitment & Passion in the
Workplace
KUES, BARRY S. - UNM associate professor of geology, author of A Bibliography of New
Mexico Paleontology, Fossils of New Mexico, co-author of Advances
in San Juan Basin Paleontology, Guidebook of Vermejo Park,
Northeastern New Mexico; & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
KUHNLE, BIAH - Albuquerque author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
KUNZ, KEVIN & BARBARA - Albuquerque authors of Reflexology:
Healing at Your Fingertips & The Parent's Guide to Reflexology:
Helping Your Child Overcome Injury & Illness Through Touch. They have been at the forefront of research,
teaching, & documentation of reflexology for 25 years. They are the
co-directors of the organization, Reflexology Research
KUTCHINS, LAURIE - former UNM professor of creative writing & literature of American
landscapes, poet of Between Towns: Poems* & The Night Path: Poems*;
some of whose other work can be found in Leaning Into the Wind & Woven
on the Wind: Women Write About Friendship in the Sagebrush West, p. 281
LABINSKY, DARIA - Rio Rancho editor at Real Beer Magazine & co-author of Frank
Applegate of Santa Fe: Artist & Preservationist
LACHNIT, JOHNNA - Albuquerque writer, artist, & technical illustrator with RICHARD
“THE BUGMAN” FAGERLUND, of Ask the Bugman:
Environmentally Safe Ways to Control Household Pests. See also
JOHNNA STRANGE
LAD, VASANT - Albuquerque physician & author of Complete Book of Ayurvedic
Home Remedies, Science of Self-Healing*, Secrets of the Pulse*,
Textbook of Ayurveda* & the Yoga of Herbs*
LAFOLLETTE, ROBERT HOATH - author of The
Rock That Gives Every Word Wished, about the Los Lunas monument & Eight
Notches: "Lawlessness & Disorder, Unlimited," & Other Stories,
which includes a section on Elfego Baca
LAMADRID, ENRIQUE - UNM professor of Spanish, interim director of Chicano Studies
contributor to Paso Por Aqui, co-author of Musica de los Viejitos:
Hispano Folk Music of the Rio Grande del Norte, Nuevo México Profundo:
Rituals of an Indo-Hispano Homeland, Pilgrimage to Chimayo &
author of Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity &
Redemption & Tesoros del Espiritu: a Portrait In Sound of Hispanic
New Mexico. He is also included in Ceremony of Brotherhood, Hispanic-American
Writers, Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy: Forms, Agencies & Discourse,
Reconstructing a Chicano/a Literary Heritage & Voces: an
Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers
LAMAR, HOWARD R. - UNM professor emeritus of English & author of The New
Encyclopedia of the American West. He is also included in New Mexico,
Past & Present, a Historical Reader
LAMBERT, ANNE - Rio Rancho author who is included in Chicken Soup for the Mother
& Daughter Soul
LAMBERT, MARJORIE F. - NM anthropologist, archaeologist, UNM professor, a northern NM Living
Treasure & author of Pueblo Indian Pottery: Materials, Tools, and
Techniques & A Survey and Excavation of Caves in Hidalgo County, New
Mexico
LAMPHERE, LOUISE - Albuquerque UNM anthropology professor, author of From Working
Daughters to Working Mothers: Immigrant Women in a New England Industrial
Community, Structuring Diversity: Ethnographic Perspectives on the New
Immigration, To Run After Them: Cultural and Social Bases of Cooperation
In a Navajo Community, co-editor of many titles & contributor to Hidden
Scholars
LANG, RICHARD W. - curator at the Museum of Navajo Ceremonial
Art, Museum of Albuquerque, the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at UNM,
archaeologist & ceramist for the School of American Research & author
of Faunal Remains from Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico: a Study In
Short-Term Subsistence Change, contributor to Food, Diet, &
Population at Prehistoric Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico, Navaho
Figurines Called Dolls, The Pottery From Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New
Mexico: Tribalization And Trade In The Northern Rio Grande & The Red
& the Black: Santa Clara Pottery by Margaret Tafoya, a Retrospective
Exhibition
LANGE, RON H. - Albuquerque author of Master Your Migraine: the Migraine Home-Cure
Manual*
LANGLEY, GLENDA STEWART - Bosque instructor of English at NM Tech, novella author & poet who
is included in The Practice of Peace & Southwestern Women: New
Voices
LANSFORD, ROBERT R. - co-author of among others, The Social & Economic Impact of Sandia National Laboratories on the State of New Mexico FY 1989
LARSON, ROBERT W. - former Albuquerquean, Associate Professor of History at the University
of Northern Colorado & author of New Mexico Populism, New
Mexico's Quest for Statehood, Red Cloud: Warrior-Statesman of the Lakota
Sioux; & he is included in Labor in New Mexico & New
Mexico, Past & Present, a Historical Reader
LASSITER, KARL - pseudonym of ROBERT E. VARDEMAN,
& western author of the NM novels, Long Walk & Warrior’s Path
LASSWELL, LINDA - Placitas author of Walking Home on the
Camino de Santiago, a fictionalized account of the author’s on-again,
off-again pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago. Sometimes surreal, sometimes
poignant, often thought provoking, She walked the 800-kilometer trail from St.
Jean-de-Port on the French side of the
LAWRENCE, JUDY -
LAYNE, MARION MARGERY - pen name of Marion Woolf,
Margery W. Papich & Layne Torkelson, authors of the Balloon
Affair, a mystery set at Albuquerque’s Balloon Fiesta
LEBLANC, STEVEN A. - anthropologist, archaeologist, director of
the Mimbres Foundation, former UNM professor, who now teaches archeology at
Harvard University & is the director of collections at the Peabody Museum
of Archaeology & Ethnology in Cambridge, MA. He, J.J. BRODY
& Anthony Berlant founded the Mimbres Foundation in 1974, later became the
model for the national US Archaeological Conservancy, to save Mimbres sites
from destruction. He studied the ancient Anasazi in NM’s El Morro Valley &
then wrote Prehistoric Warfare in the American Southwest. He also wrote The Mimbres People: Ancient
Pueblo Painters of the American Southwest;
co-authored Constant Battles: the Myth of the Peaceful, Noble Savage,
The Galaz Ruin: a Prehistoric Mimbres Village in Southwestern New Mexico
& Short-Term Sedentism In the American Southwest: the Mimbres Valley
Salado; & contributed to Mimbres Pottery: Ancient Art of the
American Southwest: Essays
LECHUGA, ELIDA A. - Albuquerque novelist & author who is included in Las Mujeres
Hablan & Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers
LEDMAN, JUDY - UNM Mental Health Center pediatrician & contributor to New
Mexico in Maps
LEE, JENNIFER HALEY - Manzano Mountains author who is included in The Spirit That Wants
Me
LEE, RAND B. - Albuquerque science fiction short story author who is included in Things
Invisible to See: Gay and Lesbian Tales of Magic Realism
LEEMING, DAVID - Albuquerque author of Amazing Grace: a
Life of Beauford Delaney, God: Myths of the Male Divine, James
Baldwin: a Biography, Mythology of Native North America & Myths,
Legends and Folktales of America: an Anthology
LEIGH, VICTORIA - Albuquerque romance author of Catch Me If You Can*, Dangerous
Love*, Flyboy*, Night of the Hawk* & Stalking the
Giant*
LEKSON, STEPHEN H. -
Albuquerque archaeologist for the National Park Service, formerly employed by
the Museum of NM, then with the Crow Canyon Research Center, now associate professor of anthropology at
the University of Colorado, Boulder, & author of several highly
respected books on Southwestern history, including Ancient Land, Ancestral Places: Paul Logsdon in the Pueblo Southwest, Chaco Canyon: a Center & its World,
Chaco Meridian: Centers of Political Power in the Ancient Southwest,
Great Pueblo Architecture of Chaco, Mimbres Archaeology of the Upper Gila, New Mexico & Nana’s
Raid: Apache Warfare in Southern New Mexico. He’s also a contributor to The Casas
Grandes World, Prehistory &
History in the Southwest,
In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma, The
Road to Aztlan: Art From a Mythic Homeland & Understanding
Complexity in the Prehistoric Southwest.
He’s also written with John L.
Ninnemann & J. McKim Malville, Canyon Spirits: Beauty & Power in the
Ancestral Puebloan World*.
LENARD-COOK, LISA - Corrales co-author of The Complete
Idiot's Guide to Numerology, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Palmistry,
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Reincarnation, The Complete Idiot's
Guide to Tarot & Fortune-Telling, The Intuitive Arts on Love*;
& author of K.I.S.S. Guide to Dreams. She is the winner of the
Jim Sagel/Red Crane Books Award for her novel Dissonance, which is set
in Los Alamos, & she’s also written Coyote Morning, a witty
examination of the interaction between people & the wilderness
LEVIN, ROB - editor of Albuquerque: Blazing New Trails
LEVOY, GREGG - formerly an adjunct professor of journalism at UNM & author of The
Business of Writing* & Callings, Finding and Following an Authentic
Life
LEYBA, MARIA - Albuquerque author called "La Voz de Barelas", author of a
book of poetry, Prisoners in My Backyard*, & who is included in Southwestern
Women: New Voices
LI, ANNETTE CHARTIER - Albuquerque co-author with DANETTE F. THOMPSON,
of romance novels
LIBERTY, LOU - retired Sandia Preparatory English &
history teacher, & author of Constant Possum: a History of Sandia
Preparatory School*
LIEBERT, MARTHA - award-winning founder of the
Bernalillo-Algodones-Placitas Library (recently renamed the Martha Liebert
Library) in Bernalillo; Sandoval County Historical Society archivist &
author of pamphlets on TimeLine for Peña Blanca & Bernalillo; &
illustrator of Los Matachines: a Dance Drama For San Lorenzo, by Richard
Joseph Kloeppel
LINDSKOLD, JANE -
Albuquerque science fiction & fantasy author of novels, including Brother
to Dragons, The Buried Pyramid, Child of a Rainless Year
(a fantasy set in Las Vegas, NM, about a house which comes alive), Companion to Owls, Changer (King Arthur in
Albuquerque) & its sequel, Legends Walking, Donnerjack (a
virtual reality world), Marks of Our Brothers, Pipes of Orpheus, Smoke
and Mirrors, Through Wolf's Eyes & it's sequels, Wolf’s Head,
Wolf’s Heart, Dragon of Despair & Wolf Captured; & a book of literary criticism &
biography of Roger Zelazny. She
is also included in The Blue & the Gray Undercover, Death by Horoscope, Drakas!, Earth,
Air, Fire, Water (Tales from the Eternal Archives, #2), Lord of the
Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny, Mardi Gras Madness:
Stories of Murder & Mayhem in New Orleans, Past Imperfect, Service
of the Sword (Worlds of Honor #4), Williamson Effect & the first
Worlds of Honor.
LINN-GUST, MICHELLE - Albuquerque high school health teacher & author of Do They Have
Bad Days in Heaven? Surviving the Suicide Loss of a Sibling*
LINTHICUM, LESLIE - Albuquerque Journal reporter who is
included in Multicultural Southwest: a Reader
LITCHMAN, KRISTIN EMBRY - Los Alamos-raised, now Albuquerque author of a children’s historical
novel set in Salt Lake City: All is Well; her autobiography, Secrets
of a Los Alamos Kid, 1946-1953 & she co-edited Period Pieces:
Stories for Girls
LITTAUER, MARITA - Albuquerque professional speaker, owner of CLASServices, Inc. &
Christian author of Come As You Are & Love Extravagantly,
& with her mother Florence,
co-author of Getting Along With Almost Anybody, Personality Puzzle:
Understanding the People You Work With & Talking So People Will
Listen
LITTLE, KIMBERLEY GRIFFITHS - Peralta children’s author of the soccer
novel, Breakaway; the story of an Acoma boy, Enchanted Runner
& it's sequel, The Last Snake Runner
LITZ, JOYCE - Albuquerque editor of her grandmother’s memoirs: The Montana Frontier: One Woman's West.
LOBDELL, HELEN - Michigan author who taught at the Belen Junior High School & author of a historical novel about the effects of the Pueblo Revolt & the journey of the Hispanic people to El Paso, in Prisoner of Taos
LONGACRE, W.C. - Albuquerque owner of W.C.’s Mountain Cafe & cookbook author of Great Salsas by the Boss of Sauce: from the Southwest and Points Beyond
LOOMIS, HELEN TURNER - Albuquerque Public Schools teacher, piano teacher, composer & poet
who is included in Earth Chant, Sandscript p. 71 & Turquoise
Land
LOONEY, RALPH - Albuquerque Tribune & Rocky Mountain News editor,
ghost-town enthusiast & author of Haunted Highways: the Ghost Towns of
New Mexico & O’Keeffe and Me: a Treasured Friendship
LOPEZ, LORETTA - El Paso-born, now Albuquerque, illustrator of Say Hola to
Spanish & author & illustrator of Birthday Swap & its
Spanish version: Que Sorpresa de Cumpleaños
LÓPEZ DE PADILLA, MARÍA ESPERANZA -
Albuquerque poet who is included in Infinite Divisions: an Anthology of
Chicana Literature
LOPOPOLO, CARLOS - historian, genealogist, & author The New Mexico Chronicles: Los
Lunas, Los Chaves, The New Mexico Chronicles: Belen, The New
Mexico Chronicles: Foundations, The New Mexico Chronicles: Tome
& The New Mexico Chronicles: Valencia
LOVATO, CAROL - American history teacher at Albuquerque High & author of Brother
Mathias, Founder of the Little Brothers of the Good Shepherd
LOVE, HARRELL & DOROTHY - Black,
former Santa Fe artists & owners of the Touch of Love Gallery, now
Albuquerque authors of their autobiography, Somebody Ought to Testify
LOVERIDGE,
ARTHUR N. - author of A Man Who Knew How to Live Among His Fellow
Men: a Graphic Life Story of Chester T. French (Citizen of Albuquerque)
LOW DOG, TIERAONA - Albuquerque director of the NM Herb Center & author of the herbal
workbook, Gifts From the Earth*
LOWNEY, BRUCE - UNM lithography professor, painter & author who is included in The
Spirit That Wants Me
LOWRY, JOE DAN - Albuquerque leading expert on the subject of Turquoise Unearthed:
An Illustrated Guide, a resource for rock hounds & serious collectors.
He owns & operates the Turquoise Museum in Albuquerque
LOZOYA, OSCAR - Albuquerque professional photographer who specializes in publicity
photos, & is the author of The Art of Black & White Portrait Photography:
Techniques from a Master Photographer
LUCERO, EVELINA ZUNI -
Isleta/San Juan Pueblo creative writing teacher at Santa Fe's Institute of
American Indian Arts & award-winning novelist of Night Sky, Morning Star,
& who is included in Here First & Returning the Gift
LUCERO, HELEN R. - Northern NM-born & raised, Director of Visual Arts at the National
Hispanic Cultural Center of NM, former Hispanic folk art curator at the Museum
of International Folk Art, former curator of Latino art at the National Museum
of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, author of Chimayó Weaving: the
Transformation of a Tradition & contributor to Flow of the
River/Corre el Río, Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy: Forms, Agencies &
Discourse, & Spanish New Mexico: the Spanish Colonial Arts Society
Collection
LUCERO, LUCINDA - Albuquerque short story author & winner of International
Quarterly’s Crossing Boundaries Writing Award, for her short story
"New Mexico Family Roots"
LUCERO, ROBERTO ANDRÉS - Albuquerque poet, family & mental health counselor, & novelist
of Sangre del Monte
LUCERO, THOMAS L. - Albuquerque architect who has worked extensively with adobe buildings
& co-author with THOMAS J. STEELE, SJ, of Religious
Architecture in Hispanic New Mexico*
LUCKINGHAM, BRADFORD - author of The Urban Southwest: a
Profile History of
LUHRS, RUTH J. - Sandia Park's award-winning columnist, children's author of Kidding
around San Diego* & xeriscape
gardening expert of Mountain and High Plains Gardening
LUJAN, JAMES - Taos Pueblo
native, Albuquerque-raised filmmaker, producer, writer, playwright of “Casi
Hermanos” about the conditions leading to the Pueblo Revolt, & “Kino &
Teresa” based on “Romeo & Juliet” but set in 17th century Santa Fe
LUNA, JACKIE - author of History
of the San Miguel de Laredo-Carnuel Land Grant of 1763
LURIE, BOBBIE - Corrales poet of The Book I Never Read*,
which won the 2003 Edges Prize. The book is a collection of the poems written
during the last years of her mother’s life when she was dying of Alzheimer’s
LUSCHEI, GLENNA - founder of Solo Press in Albuquerque,
recipient of D.H. Lawrence & Wurlitzer Foundation awards, she’s the author
of an artist book, Wind Machine* & Shot With Eros*. She’s also included in In Company: an
Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 446+
LYNN, MARY ELIZABETH - former Albuquerque editor of Sandia Publishing Corp., who now lives in
Silver City; romance author who often uses the pseudonym, ANGEL MILAN, & the author of the NM
mystery, Tavera Legacy. For more information, see Words of Love,
p. 297+
LYNN, SANDRA - Albuquerque poet, photographer, journalist, program officer for the
New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities & author of Windows on the Past,
Historic Lodgings of New Mexico
LYNN, THEODORE - Albuquerque president of Sandia Publishing Corp., author of young
adult nonfiction, including co-writing No Slack, the autobiography of MICHAEL COOPER, Albuquerque's former LA Laker
LYON, BENTLEY - Albuquerque military novelist, forestry expert & author of Summer
Stalk*, Sundown* & the espionage thriller, White Crow
MACCANNELL, LINDA - Gallup native, Albuquerque-raised, now Calgary photographer of Riders
of West: Portraits From Indian Rodeo
MACCURDY, RAYMOND (TIM) - UNM Professor Emeritus of Spanish, short story author & novelist
of Caesar of Santa Fe: a Novel From History, about colonial NM Governor
Luis de Rosas, Maria de Bustillas & Nicolas Ortiz. He is also included in Tierra:
Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico
MACKLER, TASHA - Albuquerque former bookstore owner of Murder Unlimited &
author of Murder...by Category: a Subject Guide to Mystery Fiction
MACPHERSON, ANGUS - Albuquerque artist & essayist of Landscapes: Angus Macpherson
MAHER, RAMONA - Phoenix-born winner of a Spur Award from
the Western Writers of America for best western juvenile, former editor of UNM
Press, Kirtland Air Force Base Shock Tube Facility technical editor, poet &
children’s author of The Abracadabra Mystery*, which is set in Santa Fe
& Alice Yazzie's Year, which describes each month of a year in the
life of an eleven-year-old Navajo girl
MALKUS, ALIDA - 1930’s woman's page editor & feature
writer for the Albuquerque
Morning Journal, & novelist of Caravans to Santa Fe. She also wrote the children’s books, The
Dragon Fly of Zuni, Sidi, Boy of the Desert & Stone Knife Boy*
(set in Taos Pueblo)
MALMONT, VALERIE S. - UNM-educated author of the "cozy" mystery companion novels: Death,
Lies, and Apple Pies, Death Pays the Rose Rent & Death,
Snow, and Mistletoe: a Tori Miracle Mystery, which are not set in
New Mexico
MALONE, HANK - Cedar Crest clinical psychotherapist, community organizer, radio
talk-show host, poet of the nontraditional New Mexico Haiku & essayist
of Experiencing New Mexico
MALOOF, JUDY - an assistant professor of Spanish at UNM & editor & translator
of Voices of Resistance: Testimonies of Cuban and Chilean Women*, a
collection of memoirs of women who’ve fought for human rights & justice
MALOTT, ALAN M. - Albuquerque lawyer & co-author of Workers’ Compensation In New
Mexico
MANZ, BRUNO - Albuquerque retired physicist & author of A Mind in Prison: the
Memoir of a Son & Soldier of the Third Reich. After serving as a
soldier in the Nazi army, he became a physicist & was recruited to work
with Wernher von Braun in Huntsville, AL, then transferred to White Sands
Missile Range
MARES, E.A. - native New Mexican, UNM professor emeritus of English, director of the
Writers' Inn at UNM, former poetry editor for the Blue Mesa Review,
playwright, essayist & author of I Returned and Saw Under the Sun: Padre
Martínez of Taos: a Play, Las Vegas, New Mexico: a Portrait & Padre
Martinez: New Perspectives From Taos, poet of The Unicorn Poem &
Flowers & Songs of Sorrow & With The Eyes of a Raptor: Selected
Poems; & author who is a contributor to Ceremony of Brotherhood,
Cuentos Chicanos (1980 & 1984 ed.), Flow of the River/Corre el
Río, In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p.
222+, New Mexican Lives: Profiles & Historical Stories, New
Mexico Plays, New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, Paper Dance: 55
Latino Poets, Paso Por Aqui, Shine On You Crazy Diamond: Poems By Teens
& Their Mentors, & Voices
From the Rio Grande
MARES, MICHAEL ALLEN - Albuquerque-born author of A Desert Calling: Life in a Forbidding
Landscape & Encyclopedia of Deserts;& professor of zoology
& ecology who specializes in convergent evolution, adaptation &
community organization of desert rodents of the world & South American
mammals
MARQUEZ, ANTONIO C. - UNM associate professor of English & Comparative Literature;
contributor to Paso Por Aqui, Teaching American Ethnic Literatures,
co-editor of Cuentos Chicanos & Las Mujeres Hablan
MÁRQUEZ, TERESA - director of UNM’s Government Information Dept., bibliographer for
Chicano Studies, founder of CHICLE (Chicano Culture & Literature Exchange)
on the Internet, UNM reference librarian & contributor to Sabine R.
Ulibarri: Critical Essays & co-editor of Las Mujeres Hablan: an
Anthology of Nuevo Mexicana Writers
MARS, JULIE - award-winning Albuquerque teacher at TVI, author of A
Month of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit & My Sister which is about
the 7 months that she spent as her dying sister's primary caregiver, &
after her sister died, she visited 31 NM traditional churches, mosques,
temples, Native American ceremonies, in her hope of
finding an outlet for her grief & getting some answers to spiritual
questions; & novelist of The Secret Keepers, an suspenseful, intelligent & compelling story, set in
NYC. She’s
taught composition, creative writing, business & journalism in high
schools, colleges, prisons, & on Indian reservations. She’s worked as a gift book writer for Ariel
Books (she wrote about 50 mini books for them), sold options on two
screenplays, & has worked as a journalist & in Hollywood as a film
script analyst.
MARTÍN, CHRIS - Albuquerque manager of the Mesa Verde Plant & Wildlife Refuge,
former host for KUNM-FM’s Women’s Focus, & contributor to Christmas
Blues
MARTIN, MICHELLE - Albuquerque contemporary romance author of The Long Shot & Stolen
Hearts (neither set in NM)
MARTIN, ROBERT A. - Albuquerque lawyer & co-author of Workers’ Compensation In New
Mexico
MARTIN, WILLIAM C. - UNM biology professor, co-author of Fall Wildflowers of New Mexico,
Flora of New Mexico, Spring Wildflowers of New Mexico, Summer
Wildflowers of New Mexico & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
MARTINEZ, DEMETRIA - Albuquerque native who now lives in
Tucson, journalist for the National Catholic Reporter, playwright, poet
of Breathing Between the Lines, Devil's Workshop, Three Times
a Woman: Chicana Poetry & novelist of Mother-Tongue, which won
the Western States Arts Federation 1994 Book Award for fiction. For additional information, see: Chicana
Ways: Conversations With Ten Chicana Writers, Floricanto Sí, In
Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 412+, Infinite
Divisions: an Anthology of Chicana Literature, Las Mujeres Hablan, New
Mexico Poetry Renaissance, Tarasque II, Voces: an Anthology of
Nuevo Mexicano Writers, & Walking the Twilight II
MARTINEZ, JOSEPH G. R. & NANCY C. - UNM professors & authors of Math
Without Fear: a Guide for Preventing Math Anxiety in Children & Reading
& Writing to Learn Mathematics: a Guide & a Resource Book
MARTINEZ, PAUL E. - UNM teacher & short story author, who is included in Cuentos
Chicanos (1980 ed.)
MASLEY, DOROTHY HOLLAND - Albuquerque researcher, secretary, teacher & poet who is included
in Sandscript p. 104 & Turquoise Land
MASTERSON, ROBERT - Albuquerque editor, essayist, widely-published poet, & the
editor/publisher of Lords of Language, a NM-based literary arts
organization. He’s included in In
Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 518+ & Tierra:
Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico
MASTROGIOVANNI, ANA MARIA - Argentinean-born Albuquerque graphic
artist, designer & author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
MATHEWS, PATRICIA SHAW - Albuquerque accountant, co-author with Andre Norton of On Wings of
Magic & author of many published science fiction & fantasy short
stories. She is also included in The Feminine Eye: Science Fiction and the
Women Who Write It
MATHIS, MARK - Albuquerque former television reporter/anchor, radio talk show host,
now, media trainer, teaching the Media Rules system, consultant, husband of
Diane Anderson, former news anchor for KOAT & author of Feeding the
Media Beast: an Easy Recipe for Great Publicity
MATTHEWS, KAY - El Valle outdoor enthusiast & author of among others, Hiking Trails of the Sandia & Manzano Mountains Including Cross- Country Ski Information
MAULDIN, BILL - Albuquerque Pulitzer Prize-winning WWII cartoonist, author of Bill
Mauldin’s Army, The Brass Ring, Up Front, & his memoirs: Sort
of a Saga
MAYDEW, RANDALL C. - Albuquerque former Sandia Laboratory engineer & author of America’s
Lost H-Bomb! Palomares, Spain 1966*
MAYFIELD, CARL - Rio Rancho poet who’s included in In
Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 435+ & Sometimes
the Light: Poems
MAYNARD, LEE - Cochiti resident, the president & executive director of the
Storehouse in Albuquerque & novelist of Crum, the story of a young
boy coming of age in Appalachia, & it’s sequel, Screaming With the
Cannibals
MAYS, BUDDY - former Albuquerque Tribune photographer & author of Ancient
Cities of the Southwest, Indian Villages of the Southwest, People
of the Sun, & Wildwaters
MCCAFFERTY, JEANNE - part-time Albuquerque resident & mystery novelist of Star Gazer,
which is not set in NM
MCCANNA, P. F. (PETER F.) - Albuquerque realtor & author of Decades
of Destiny, a compilation from the Albuquerque scrapbooks begun by him
& continued by Raymond J. McCanna
MCCARTY, FRANKIE - 1st woman reporter for the Albuquerque Journal
MCCLUNEY, MIRIAM - Albuquerque Academy English teacher & poet who is included in Sandscript
p. 39 & Turquoise Land
MCCONNELL, ASHLEY - Albuquerque author of many "Quantum Leap" fantasy novels;
including, in paperback only: Quantum Leap: the Novel*, Random
Measures,* Too Close for Comfort*, & The Wall*
MCCONNELL, HELEN APPLEGARTH - Albuquerque children's librarian who is
included in Woven on the Wind: Women Write About Friendship in the Sagebrush
West, p. 13
MCCORMICK, WILFRED - creative writing teacher at UNM, &
children’s sports author of many titles, including: The Big Ninth*, Eagle
Scout* (set at Philmont Scout Ranch), Flying Tackle; a Bronc Burnett
Story*, Legion Tourney: a Bronc Burnett Story*, Pro Toughback
(set partially in Albuquerque), Quick Kick; a Bronc Burnett Story*, Rambling
Halfback*, & The Three-Two Pitch*, all set in NM
MCCRACKEN, CATHRYN - UNM graduate, contributor to Christmas Blues & poet of the
collection, Earth Dreams, Quarried in New Mexico
MCCUTCHEON, CHUCK - former Albuquerque Journal reporter & author of Nuclear
Reactions: the Politics of Opening a Radioactive Waste Disposal Site
MCDONALD, MARGARET ESPINOSA - Belen middle school teacher of NM history
& contributor to Heroes of the Rio Abajo: Stories of the Brave Men and
Women in Valencia County History & co-author of Valencia County, New
Mexico: History through the Photographer's Lens
MCDOWELL, ALICE - Placitas author, registered nurse, social
worker, spiritual counselor & cancer survivor, who wrote The Good News:
It's Cancer*, about the transformation of her life, by her illness
MCHENRY, PAUL - Albuquerque expert on & author of Adobe and Rammed Earth
Buildings, Adobe: Build It Yourself & The Adobe Story: a
Global Treasure
MCKENNA, MEGAN - Albuquerque author of Blessings and Woes*
MCKENZIE, JOSEPH-CHARLES - UNM instructor in French & winner of
the Scottish International Open Poetry Competition for the long-poem category
MCKINNON, KAREN - UNM graduate with her masters in English,
awarded a NEA Poet-in-the-Schools grant, was a writer-in-residence at the
Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, & is the poet of Coming True. She’s also included in In Company: an
Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 307+
MCLAUGHLIN, DARA - Rio Rancho poet of her collection of poems: A Map of This World*
MCLERIE, JEANIE - singer for the Albuquerque Cajun band, Bayou Seco & author
who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
MCMULLEN, MARY - pseudonym of MARY REILLY, Edgar Allan Poe
Award-winning Albuquerque mystery author of, among others: Better Off Dead,
But Nellie Was So Nice, A Grave Without Flowers, The Man With
Fifty Complaints, Prudence Be Damned, & Until Death Do Us
Part (none set in NM). She is also the author of The Gift Horse*, a
mystery set in Albuquerque. She is the
sister of URSULA CURTISS & the daughter of HELEN REILLY
MCNERNEY, JERRY - Albuquerque novelist of Terrorism and Fear: Enter the Third Level*
MCNICKLE, D’ARCY - Albuquerque Salish/Kootenai author of nonfiction, novelist of Runner
in the Sun (a novel of Anasazi life in 14th century NM), The Surrounded
(one of the earliest novels of the Native American Renaissance, about the
Salish Indians) & Wind From an Enemy Sky (a novel about the Little
Elk Indians in the early part of the 20th century) & short stories, some of
which are included in The Singing Spirit
MCNITT, FRANK - former resident of Farmington & Albuquerque, respected historian
& author of Indian Traders, Navajo Wars & Richard
Wetherill: Anasazi
MCNUTT, GLADYS - real name of Albuquerque author, Andrya, who wrote What's An Angel*
MCWATTERS, ALICIA - Albuquerque co-author of A Guide to a
Naturally Healthy Bird: Nutrition, Feeding, and Natural Healing Methods for
Parrots & Super Nutrition for Animals (Birds, Too!)
MEAD, CHRISTOPHER - art historian, UNM professor in architecture & author of The
Architecture of Bart Prince, a Pragmatics of Place & Houses by Bart
Prince
MEAD, FRANCES HARVEY - Albuquerque author of Conejos Country*
MEINEL, CAROLYN - Cedar Crest author of computer book, The Happy Hacker* &
president of the consulting firm M/B Research & marketing research expert
MEKETA, JACQUELINE - Placitas historian & author of From Martyrs to Murders: the Old
Southwest's Saints, Sinners and Scalawags & Louis Felsenthal:
Citizen Soldier of Territorial New Mexico; editor of Legacy of Honor:
the Life of Rafael Chacon, a Nineteenth-Century New Mexican, & with her
husband, One Blanket and Ten Days Rations: 1st Infantry New Mexico
Volunteers in Arizona, 1864-1866
MELENDEZ, A. GABRIEL - Albuquerque Associate Professor & Chair of UNM's American Studies,
faculty associate of the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute, scholar,
bilingual novelist, poet, author of So All Is Not Lost: the Poetics of Print
in Nuevo-Mexicano Communities, 1834-1958 & co-editor of Multicultural
Southwest: a Reader. He translated The Biography of Casimiro Barela
by Jose Emilio Fernandez. He is also included in The Contested
Homeland, a Chicano History of New Mexico, Nuevomexicano Cultural
Legacy: Forms, Agencies & Discourse, Tierra: Contemporary Short
Fiction of New Mexico & Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano
Writers
MELLA, DOROTHEE - Albuquerque artist, color-psychologist & author of Language of
Color
MELZER, RICHARD - UNM-Valencia associate history professor, winner of the 1995 UNM’s
Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award; author of many titles including Break
Down: How the Secret of the Atomic Bomb Was Stolen During World War II, Ernie
Pyle in the American Southwest, Madrid Revisited: Life and Labor in a
New Mexican Mining Camp in the Years of the Great Depression, editor of Heroes
of the Rio Abajo: Stories of the Brave Men and Women in Valencia County History;
he is also included in Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico History
& co-authored Valencia County, New Mexico: History through the
Photographer's Lens
MERRILL, C.S. (CAROL S.) - Albuquerque poet, former employee of Georgia O’Keeffe, children’s
librarian at the Santo Domingo Pueblo & Cochiti Pueblo schools, editor of
the Southwest Woman’s Poetry Exchange, in Corrales, & author of a book of
poetry: O’Keeffe: Days in a Life.
She’s also included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets
After 1960 p. 439+
MERRIMAN, DELILAH - Albuquerque medical photographer, print maker, fine arts photographer
& author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
METAL, ANDREW - Cochiti Lake retired employee of the NM Department of Labor, &
author of Dear Folks, a collection of letters written by a young soldier
to his family, during WWII
MEYER, CAROLYN - very prolific Albuquerque author of children's novels & craft
books, including: Anastasia: the Last Grand Duchess, Christmas Crafts,
Elliott & Win* (a young adult novel set in Santa Fe), Isabel:
Jewel of Castilla, Kristina: the Girl King, Luck of Texas McCoy
(set in Santa Fe), Rio Grande Stories (about a class which holds an
unusual fund-raiser: they sell a book of stories about their NM ancestors’
families) & Where the Broken Heart Still Beats: the Story of Cynthia Ann
Parker; & an adult novel, Brown Eyes Blue, a mother &
daughter story, set in the Amish country, of Pennsylvania
MEYERS,
ROBERT J. - an associate professor of psychology at UNM. He is also the Associate Director of the
Clinical Research Branch of the Center on Alcoholism Substance Abuse &
Addictions, which is internationally known for its excellence in substance
abuse research & treatment development. Dr. Meyers has worked in the
substance abuse field for over 27 years & has published several books,
including Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, &
Threatening, with BRENDA L. WOLFE
MILÁN, VICTOR - Albuquerque technothriller, adventure, & science fiction author of
novels such as the Cybernetic Samurai, its sequel, the Cybernetic
Shogun, a spy novel, Red Sands & a western, The War Party*,
set in NM. He is also included in Very
Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy & the mosaic
novels, Wild Cards
MILBURN, CARIN CALVERT - Albuquerque children’s short story author & storyteller
MILLER, JOHN J. - Albuquerque science fiction author of Dinosaur Samurai, The
Twilight Zone, a Witchblade novel, A Terrible Beauty; short story
author who is included in Drakas!, Lord of the Fantastic: Stories in
Honor of Roger Zelazny, The Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction
and Fantasy, The Williamson Effect, & the "mosaic"
novel series, Wild Cards. He has also written many novels: several in
the Ray Bradbury series: Dinosaur Empire*; a couple of Buck Rogers
books, several men's adventure books under the name of Jack Arnott, & is
currently writing a new Wild Cards novel. He is also the writer of the comic
mini-series Hellhound*
MILLER, JONATHAN - Albuquerque attorney & author of Amarillo in August: an
Author’s Life on the Road, a nonfiction book about his travels to promote
his mysteries: Crater County: a Legal Thriller of New Mexico & Rattlesnake
Lawyer: a Legal Thriller of the New West
MILLER, MICHAEL -
director of research & literary arts at the NM Hispanic Cultural Center,
former State Historian, director of the NM Records Center & Archives,
retired director of the Center for Southwest Research at UNM, author of Monuments
of Adobe: the Religious Architecture and Traditions of New Mexico, editor
of A New Mexico Scrapbook: 23 New Mexicans Remember Growing Up, &
who is included in Enduring Cowboys: Life in the New Mexico Saddle &
Forever New Mexico: Heartfelt Images from the Land of Enchantment. He’s also included in the NM issue of Cobblestone Magazine: American History for Kids, May, 1998
MILLER, MICHELLE - former Albuquerque, now Jemez Springs novelist, playwright, poet,
novella & short story author, winner of the NM Women's Press Association's
Zia Award for Hunger in the First Person Singular: Stories of Desire and
Power, & co-editor of Christmas Blues & The Spirit That
Wants Me. She also writes under the name, MICHELLE
MILLER ALLEN
MILLER, STEPHEN LEROY - Albuquerque former teacher, evangelical minister & author of Journey
Into Life* & Promise of Life*, which explore self-awareness from
a Christian perspective
MILLER, WILLIAM - clinical psychologist, professor of psychology & psychiatry at UNM
& co-author of Quantum Change: When Epiphanies & Sudden Insights
Transform Ordinary Lives
MINGE, WARD ALAN - collector, restorer of Casa San Ysidro, Corrales' historic Hispanic
house & historian of Acoma: Pueblo In the Sky. He is also included
in Bicentennial ‘76 - Albuquerque Remembers
MITCHELL, ELEANOR L. - author of A Study of an Historical Trail Through Tijeras Canyon
MIXON, LAURA J. - Albuquerque environmental expert, author of short stories,
contributor to the "mosaic" novel series, Wild Cards; a
chilling novel set in Albuquerque, when global warming has parched the earth,
but consciousness can be sent to another world: Proxies; the suspenseful
story of a colony of clone family groups terraforming a small planet, in Burning
the Ice; & co-author with her husband, STEVEN
GOULD, of the excellent, environmental thriller, Greenwar. She also wrote a young adult science fiction
novel, Glass Houses*
MOCHO, JILL - Albuquerque author of Murder and Justice in Frontier New Mexico,
1821-1846
MOCK, CHARLOTTE - Albuquerque City Planner & author of Bridges:
New Mexican Black Women, 1900-1950 & contributor to History of Hope: the African American
Experience in New Mexico
MODRALL, CONSTANCE - Albuquerque author of Courtroom Humor and a Selection of New Mexico
Profiles & editor of her husband, JAMES
MODRALL’s memoirs; she is also included in Bicentennial ‘76 -
Albuquerque Remembers
MODRALL, J.R. (JAMES) - Albuquerque lawyer, former assistant attorney general of NM &
author of My Fifty Years In New Mexico Punching Cows and Practicing Law
MOLLES, MANUEL C., JR. - UNM biology professor & author of Ecology: Concepts and
Applications
MONDRAGÓN, JOHN
B. - a professor in the
College of Education at UNM with a long & distinguished tenure as a public
school administrator. He’s the co-author
with ERNEST
S. STAPLETON, of Public
Education in New Mexico,
which won the Earl Nunn Memorial Friend of Education Award
MONROE, MITZI E. - Albuquerque founder, director & compiler of the African-American
Contemporary Reader’s List, a reference service which lists titles &
authors, & a guide to magazines, literary Web sites & comic books
MONTALVO, MARGARITA - Albuquerque Puerto Rican-born translator, illustrator & author of
the children’s collection, Zoológico de Poemas=Poetry Zoo
MONTANA, HUNTER & SHELKIE - (pen names of NEESE,
MICHAEL & SHELLIE) Albuquerque authors of Cowboy Ties
MONTANO, MARY CAROLINE - Albuquerque author of Tradiciones Nuevomexicanas: Hispano Arts
& Culture of New Mexico, one of the most complete overview of Hispanic
folkarts since the 16th century
MONTEJANO, DAVID - UNM sociology professor & author of Anglos and Mexicans in the
Making of Texas
MONTGOMERY, JOHN - Albuquerque teacher of art & art history at the Southwestern
Indian Polytechnic Institute, scholar of Maya hieroglyphic writing, illustrator
of pre-Columbian art & author of Tikal: an Illustrated History of the
Ancient Maya Capital*
MONTOYA, MALAQUIAS - Albuquerque artist & illustrator of The Adventures of Connie
and Diego = Las Aventuras de Connie y Diego
MONTOYA, REGINA - Albuquerque activist & author who is included in Las Mujeres
Hablan
MOON, CARL & GRACE - 1900s artist & writer of children's books, who managed his own art
& photography studio in Albuquerque, later producing collections for the
Huntington Library & the American Museum of Natural History. He illustrated children's books written by
his wife, Grace Moon, including The Book of Nah-Wee*, stories about a
Pueblo Indian girl. He also wrote &
illustrated Flaming Arrow*, the story of a Pueblo Indian boy who
discovers the people who tricked his tribe's chief. For more information, please see In Search
of the Wild Indian: Photographs & Life Works by Carl & Grace Moon
MOORE, MICHAEL - former Silver City & Santa Fe, now Albuquerque director of the
Southwest School of Botanical Research & author of several respected works
on Southwestern medicinal herbs, including Remedios: Traditional Herbal
Remedies of the Southwest, Medicinal Plants of the Desert and Canyon
West & Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West
MOORE, SALLY - Buffalo, NY-born, Albuquerque travel &
food writer & photographer of Country Roads of New Mexico: Drives, Day
Trips, & Weekend Excursions & Culinary New Mexico: the Ultimate
Food Lover's Guide
MOORE, TODD - Albuquerque poet of Dillinger*, The Man in the Black
Chevrolet*, Billie F.*, & Watching*
MORAIN, STANLEY A. - UNM chairman of the Department of Geography & contributor to New
Mexico in Maps
MORELL, MARY - Albuquerque former co-owner of the feminist bookstore, Full Circle
Books & author of two excellent mysteries, Final Rest & Final
Session, set in San Antonio, TX, starring Lucia Ramos, police officer
MORGAN, HOWARD - long-time Albuquerque TV weatherman, gardening expert, author of Howard
Morgan’s Even More from Gardenlore, Howard Morgan’s Gardenlore &
Howard Morgan’s More from Gardenlore
MORRIS, DAVID - Albuquerque former university professor of 18th century British
literature, & author of Culture of Pain* & Earth Warrior*
MORRIS, JAMES A. - author of Oku
Pin, the Sandia Mountains of New Mexico
MORRIS, RICHARD - former Albuquerque poet, physicist & popular science author of Dismantling
the Universe: the Nature of Scientific Discovery, Light, The
Nature of Reality & Time’s Arrows: Scientific Attitudes Toward Time
MORROW, BAKER H. - Albuquerque landscape architect, adjunct associate professor at UNM’s
School of Architecture and Planning; author of A Dictionary of Landscape
Architecture, Best Plants for New Mexico Gardens and Landscapes;
fiction author of Horses Like the Wind & Other Stories of Africa,
translator & editor of Harvest of Reluctant Souls: the Memorial of Fray
Alonso de Benavides, 1630 & co-editor of Anasazi Architecture and
American Design
MORROW, HUGH - Albuquerque author of the paperback, Black Madonna*. For
further information, please see DYER, ROBERT
MOTTER, CHARLOTT LOUISE - Rio Rancho author of Poca & Star, Sky, Alexandra and
Majesty* about her many pets, & Reiki? A Healing Art? Yes!*
MOTTO, SYTHA - Albuquerque author of early NM local histories, including Madrid
and Christmas in New Mexico, Old Houses of New Mexico and the People Who
Built Them; poet who is included in Earth Chant, Sandscript
p. 24 & Turquoise Land; & she is also included in Bicentennial
‘76 - Albuquerque Remembers
MOYERS, WILLIAM - Albuquerque painter & sculptor who
illustrated Florence Hayes’ Chee and
His Pony: the Story of a Navajo Boy & George Cory Franklin’s Wild
Horses of the Rio Grande
MUENCH, DAVID - Corrales
photographer of Anasazi: Ancient People of the Rock, Ancient America,
Arizona, Colorado, David Muench's Arizona: Cherish the Land,
Walk in Beauty, Eternal Desert, Images in Stone, National
Parks of America, New Mexico, New Mexico II, Plateau Light,
Sacred Lands of Indian America & Windstone: Natural Arches,
Bridges, & Other Openings
MULCAHY, LUCILLE - Albuquerque Public Library assistant procurement officer &
novelist of Natoto, a love story set in Chaco Canyon. She also wrote for children: The Blue
Marshmallow Mountains, a mystery set in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, Dark
Arrow, a Tewa Indian novel, Fire on Big Lonesome, about a
14-year-old Zuni boy who volunteers & joins a fire crew, Magic Fingers,
about a Pueblo grandmother & Pita*, also set in NM
MULLANE, MIKE - Albuquerque astronaut & the science fiction novelist of Red
Sky: a Novel of Love, Space and War
MURRAY, STEVEN T. - Albuquerque National Endowment for the
Arts fellowship winning translator of Detective Inspector Huss by Helene
Tursten, Faceless Killers: a Mystery by Henning Mankell, The Fifth
Woman by Henning Mankell & Sidetracked: a Kurt Wallander Mystery
by Henning Mankell. He owned & operated the small Fjord Press &
now owns Oso Press. He is married to TIINA
NUNNALLY
MYERS, DWIGHT & CAROL - Albuquerque founders of New Mexico Book
League, Book Talk magazine, authors & editors of In Celebration
of the Book & Literary New Mexico
NAGATANI, PATRICK - Albuquerque photographer, UNM professor & author included in Through
Children’s Eyes: 100 Young Photographers Capture Their Community &
author of Nuclear Enchantment
NAGLE, PATI (P.G.) - Los
Alamos-born, now Albuquerque writer of her Far Western Civil War series of
novels which include Glorieta Pass, The Guns of Valverde, Galveston,
& Red River. She is also the author of science fiction short
stories, included in An Armory of Swords, Lord of the Fantastic:
Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny & The Williamson Effect
NASH, GERALD D. - UNM professor & author of The American West in the Twentieth
Century, American West Transformed, Creating the West, Researching
Western History, & The Twentieth Century West: Historical
Interpretations
NASON, THELMA - Albuquerque author of excellent books on early New Mexican history: No Golden Cities & Under the Wide Sky: Tales of New Mexico and the Spanish Southwest
NAYLOR, JAMES - eastern NM raised, now Los Lunas botanist, ecological project manager
& author of his memoir, Lions, Military Junta, Hyenas, Wildfires &
Nomad: Working in the Developing World*
NEARY, NANCY - Albuquerque former high-school English teacher & co-author of New
Mexico: a New Guide to the Colorful State
NEESE, MICHAEL & SHELLIE see
MONTANA, HUNTER & SHELKIE
NELSON, DREW - newspaper & magazine journalist, advertising copywriter, author of
the children's novel: Wild Voices, & husband of VAUNDA NELSON
NELSON, MARY CARROLL - Albuquerque artist & prolific author of excellent books on Southwestern & Western artists; including Artists of the Spirit: in Art and Mysticism, Egg Tempera Landscapes of Doris Steider: a Vision of Silence, Legendary Artists of Taos, & Masters of Western Art. She is also included in The Spirit That Wants Me. She’s also the author of very good children’s biographies on Southwestern & Western artists, including Annie Wauneka, Maria Martinez, Michael Naranjo, Pablita Velarde & Robert Bennett
NELSON, SARAH - Los Lunas poet of Grandpa’s Scrapbook*
NELSON, VAUNDA MICHEAUX - Children's Librarian at the Rio Rancho Public Library, winner of the
1994 Econo-Clad Award for an Outstanding Reading or Literature Program for
Children, author of several children's books, including Almost to Freedom
(named as one of the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books), Always Gramma,
Beyond Mayfield, Mayfield Crossing, Possibles & Ready?
Set. Raymond!. She has also served on the Newbery Selection
Committee.
NESBIT, KAREN STRAIT - Sandia Park author of Home On the Rage,
a young adult novel of a young girl struggling in a house of emotionally vacant
parents. Corky's strong voice & persistence enable her to find a home where
she can safely grow up
New Town & the Railroad Boom Years 1880-1912: a Selection of Three "Booster Booklets" From the Era, published by Albuquerque Museum - Reference 978.961 N532
NEWELL, ANN - former Tularosa, now Albuquerque haiku poet who is included in The
Practice of Peace & XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience &
poet collected in Mount Gasson's Slope*
NEWHALL, BEAUMONT - world-renowned photographer, photographic historian, UNM professor,
founder of the Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Photography, & a
northern NM Living Treasure, whose autobiography was Focus
NEWHALL, NANCY - Albuquerque & Santa Fe photographer & wife of BEAUMONT, co-editor of Masters of
Photography, author of From Adams to Stieglitz: Pioneers of Modern
Photography & who is included in Sisters of the Earth, p. 328+
NICHOL, JEFF - Albuquerque veterinarian, columnist for the Albuquerque Journal,
& author of Is My Cat Ok?: How to Know... When Your Cat Won't Say
& Is My Dog OK?: How to Know... When Your Dog Won't Say & A
Lifetime Guide to Practical Pet Care: Better Health & Happier Homes For
Dogs And Cats
NICKELL, JUDY - former Albuquerque Tribune columnist, reporter & author of Enchanted
Gardening: Gardening in the Land of Enchantment
NIEDERMAN,
SHARON - Albuquerque
journalist, playwright, author of Hellish Relish: Sizzling Salsas &
Devilish Dips From the Kitchens of New Mexico; co-author of Living
Treasures: Celebration of the Human Spirit: a Legacy of New Mexico, The
Santa Fe & Taos Book: a Complete Guide; co-editor of New Mexico
Poetry Renaissance, Tarasque I & Tarasque II; compiler of
A Quilt of Words: Women's Diaries, Letters & Original Accounts of Life
in the Southwest, 1860-1960 & novelist of Return to Abo, about a
journalist who returns home to a small ranching community in NM, “Monte
Alto”. There she must struggle with her
mother & her daughter, to make peace between them, & the place they
love. She’s also a short story author
included in & the editor of Shaking Eve’s Tree: Short Stories of Jewish
Women
NIELL, LEOLA AUSTIN - Estancia-born, now Edgewood romance novelist of To Dance With a
Dream Catcher
NILES, KATE FULLER - Albuquerque poet & author of Geographies of the Heart*
NOGGLE, ANNE - former UNM professor, Albuquerque photographer, recipient of three
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grants & a Guggenheim
Fellowship; author of Dance With Death: Soviet Airwomen in World War II,
Silver Lining; & who is included in Essential Landscape: the New
Mexico Photographic Survey.
NORDHAUS, ROBERT J. - retired Albuquerque attorney & author of Tipi Rings: a
Chronicle of the Jicarilla Apache Land Claim
NORTHROP, STUART A. - former chairman of UNM’s Dept. Of Geology (1929-1961) & author of
the standard text on the Minerals of New Mexico
NORWOOD, VERA - UNM American Studies professor, author of Made From This Earth,
on women's place in environmental history, co-editor of Desert Is No Lady
& is included in New Mexico Women: Intercultural Perspectives
NOYER, ALBERT - East Mountain professional artist, illustrator of Mountain and High
Plains Gardening, teacher, art historian & novelist of the Roman mysteries,
Cybelene Conspiracy, Saint’s Day Deaths & The Secundus
Papyrus
NUGENT, JOHN F. - Albuquerque professional photographer &
contributor to Albuquerque: Blazing New Trails
NUNNALLY, TIINA - Albuquerque National Endowment for the
Arts fellowship winning translator of Before You Sleep by Linn Ullmann, The
Royal Physicians Visit by Per Olov Enquist & The Unknown Sigrid
Undset: Jenny & Other Works by Sigrid Undset. She’s also the
mystery author of Fate of Ravens: a Margit Andersson Mystery & Runemaker:
a Margit Andersson Mystery. She is married to STEVEN T. MURRAY
NUNNERY, FRANCES MINERVA - Albuquerque chauffeur, bus driver, boarding house keeper, night club singer, rancher, deputy sheriff, & real estate agent who told her story to CECIL DAWKINS, in A Woman of the Century, Frances Minerva Nunnery (1898-1997): Her Story in Her Own Memorable Voice
O'BRIEN, MARGARET - Albuquerque illustrator of a natural history book, Nature Notes*
O’CONNOR, CLAIBORNE - Albuquerque graphic designer,
calligrapher, illustrator & contributor to Christmas Blues. He also
illustrated the NM children’s book, Little Brown Roadrunner
O'CONNOR, KATHRYN KENNEDY - co-founder & 1st director of the
Albuquerque Little Theatre, & author of Theatre in the Cow Country,
about those experiences
ODER, BARRON - Albuquerque contract historian for the US Air Force Phillips
Laboratory & who is included in Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico
History
OFFUTT, CHRIS - former Albuquerque winner of a NEA Fellowship, an award from the American
Academy of Arts & Letters & a Guggenheim Fellowship; a guest instructor
at UNM’s English Department, author of his memoirs: Same River Twice,
novelist of Good Brother, Kentucky Straight, short story author
of Out of the Woods, & who was named one of Granta Magazine’s
Best Young American Novelists
OGELSBY, JILL - Albuquerque-born author who teaches at NM Tech, lives in Los Lunas
& is included in Southwestern Women: New Voices
OHLIN, ALIX - former
Albuquerque resident, teacher at Lafayette College, & novelist of a smart
& entertaining debut, The Missing Person, set in Albuquerque
OISHI, MARY - an underwriting
marketing specialist at KUNM, since 1999 she’s frequently a guest-host, poet,
activist, conducts workshops, is included in Albuzerxque, Volume 16 (2003), a CD collection of Albuquerque
writers & musicians; has published a chapbook, Naked Without Shame
& has an upcoming book & CD, Kiss the World Awake, which will be
half poetry & half journal, to encourage readers to use their own poetic
voice
OLSON, KEITH G. - author of a book about Albuquerque’s ownn artist, The Art of Steve Hanks: Poised Between Heartbeats
OPPENHEIMER, ALAN J. - author of The Historical Background of Albuquerque, New Mexico
ORELL, LINDA H. - Albuquerque parenting expert & co-author of Children and Their
Families in New Mexico
ORGANICK, AVRUM - former Albuquerque, now Tsaile, AZ
physician & autobiographical novelist of his life with his Navajo wife
& children, in Blessings & A Scandal in Yvonsk and Other Stories*,
a series of stories which begins in Yvonsk, a small Polish town at the turn of
the last century, & sweeps forward in time & place from NYC into the
American West. From the first, the Jewish experience & the Jewish
consciousness of the writer emerge. Yet
the writer's sensitivity to & love of the larger world, his interaction
with its people & his empathetic response to their joys & tragedies,
mark him as a writer of broader range.
He’s also written his autobiography, Red Lake Revisited & the
children’s title Canyon Boy, about his father-in-law’s life in Canyon de
Chelly. For more information, please see the NM Index.
ORTEGA, CRISTINA - Albuquerque elementary school teacher & author of her
autobiographical children’s novel, set in Chimayó: Los Ojos del Tejedor: the
Eyes of the Weaver
ORTIZ, ALFONSO - San Juan Pueblo-born, UNM professor of anthropology, a northern NM Living Treasure, author & editor of American Indian Myths and Legends, New Perspectives on the Pueblos, Tewa World: Space, Time, Being and Becoming in a Pueblo Society & co-editor of American Indian Trickster Tales. He is also included in Ceremony of Brotherhood, New Mexico In Maps & Stars Above, Earth Below: American Indians and Nature. He also wrote the children’s nonfiction title, The Pueblo
ORTIZ, DEANNA - Los Alamos-raised, later moved to
Albuquerque, UNM graduate, musician, art songwriter who plays in a small
acoustic band & poet who’s included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 510+
OTTO-DINIZ, SARA - editor of the children’s titles, “Biplanes & Butterflies": an Albuquerque Art Adventure & Through Children's Eyes: 100 Young Photographers Capture Their Community. She’s the founding director of Art in the School; develops teaching guides, instructs members, conducts professional development workshops for teachers, seeks funding, administers grants, oversees staff, & serves as board liaison.
OWENS, LOUIS - Choctaw/Cherokee UNM English professor, literary critic, & mystery
novelist of the Bone Game, Nightland (set in NM), Sharpest
Sight & Wolfsong. More information on him can be found in Here
First & I Hear the Train: Reflections, Inventions, Refractions
PADILLA, AMADO MANUEL - Albuquerque-born & raised Stanford professor & author of Chicano
Ethnicity & Hispanic Psychology
PADILLA, GENARO M. - English professor & Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Affairs at
U.C. Berkeley, co-editor of UNM Press's "Pasó Por Aquí" series &
author of My History, Not Yours: the Formation of Mexican American
Autobiography. He is also included in Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy:
Forms, Agencies & Discourse.
PAGE, JAKE - Corrales' editor, columnist for Natural History & Smithsonian
magazines, author of natural history works including The First Americans: In
Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery, God: Myths of the Male Divine,
The Hopi, In the Hands of the Great Spirit: the 20,000-Year History
of American Indians, Lords of the Air: the Smithsonian Book of Birds,
The Mythology of Native North America, Myths, Legends & Folktales
of America: an Anthology, The Navajo, Sacred Lands of Indian
America, Smithsonian Guides to Natural America: the Southwest, Smithsonian's
New Zoo, Songs to Birds: Essays, Tales of the Earth: Paroxysms
& Perturbations of the Blue Planet, Wild Justice: the People of
Geronimo vs. the United States & Zoo: the Modern Ark. He's also
the novelist of a NM mystery series, with a blind Santa Fe sculptor/hero, in Deadly
Canyon, Knotted Strings, Lethal Partner, Stolen Gods
& Certain Malice; the mysteries/ romances: Demon State (a
love story about a professional Albuquerque basketball team) & Shoot the
Moon (set on a reservation west of Albuquerque); & science fiction
novels about the Nazi invasion of NM & their expulsion by the Navajo &
Hopi, in Operation Shatterhand, Cavern
(set in Carlsbad & the WIPP Site when WIPP excavations lead to the
discovery of Ice Age bears) & an alternate history of the Apaches &
their development of a sovereign nation, in Apacheria
PAGE, SUSANNE - Corrales’ photographer & co-author with her husband, JAKE, of several books, including Celebration
of Being: Photographs of the Hopi & Navajo, Field Guide to Southwest
Indian Arts and Crafts, The Hopi & The Navajo
PAINTER, ROBERT - Albuquerque author of The Native American Indian Artist Directory
PAPICH, MARGERY W. see LAYNE, MARION MARGERY
PARIS, TRACI - poet & co-organizer of Herland, with LISA GILL, an
Albuquerque women’s group designed to support new authors & member of the
Albuquerque team who competed in the National Poetry Slam Championships. She’s included in In Company: an Anthology
of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 502+
PARR, SUSAN SHERWOOD -
Brooklyn-born,
PARSONS, TANNER -
PASCHICH, ED - Corrales' builder, owner of Passage Construction Co., co-author of
innovative books on building: Mainstreaming Sustainable Architecture: Casa
De Paja: a Demonstration, Timber Reduced Energy Efficient Homes
& Tire House Book
PATERSON, KENT IAN - Las Cruces-raised, now Albuquerque based journalist & author of Hot
Empire of Chile
PATTERSON-RUDOLPH, CAROL - UNM-educated author of On the Trail of
Spider Woman: Petroglyphs, Pictographs, & Myths of the Southwest & Petroglyphs
and Pueblo Myths of the Rio Grande
PAUL, PAULA G. - West Texas ranch-raised, now Albuquerque
playwright, former Albuquerque Journal & Tribune journalist,
teacher & author of the NM romantic suspense novel: Inn of the Clowns;
her mysteries include Symptoms of Death, An Improper Death & Half
a Mind to Murder which comprise the Dr. Alexandra Gladstone series, set in
Victorian England. She is also included in Hot Biscuits: Eighteen Stories by
Women and Men of the Ranching West. She’s
also the young adult novelist of Dance With Me, Gods (set at San Juan
Pueblo during the Pueblo Revolt), Last Summer I Got in Trouble, The
Wail of La Llorona*, a romance set in Albuquerque & You Can Hear a
Magpie Smile, about a small-town New Mexico curandera. She also wrote a children’s novel set
partially in Albuquerque, Geronimo Chino
PAUSEWANG, JOANN -
co-author of Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico: a Guide to its History &
Architecture
PEARCE, T. M. (THOMAS MATTHEW) - former UNM English professor, author of
among others, Alice Corbin Henderson, "The Dukes of
Alburquerque: Albuquerque, New Mexico, Old Spain & New Spain", Mary
Hunter Austin, New Mexico Place Names, Oliver La Farge, Southwest
Heritage; a Literary History with Bibliographies, Stories of the Spanish
Southwest: Cuentos de los Niños Chicanos; poet of Poets' Fellowship:
Verses, & who is included in Earth Chant, Sandscript p.
v. & Turquoise Land. He also
co-edited Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 19OO-195O. For further information, see the NM Index.
PEARL, MARE - Bosque Farms co-novelist with SUE BOGGIO, of Sunlight & Shadow, a
cross-cultural love story, set in NM. Mare is a UNM mental health technician at
the UNM Children’s Psychiatric Center & Sue is a UNM Health Center registered
nurse . They have been friends for 40 years & have won numerous writing
contests & awards together. They have been active members of the Southwest
Writers Workshop since 1993
PEARY, WARREN - Albuquerque investigative health journalist, son of WILLIAM S. PEAVY, & co-author of Super
Nutrition Gardening
PEASTER, LILLIAN - author of Pueblo Pottery Families:
Acoma, Cochiti, Hopi, Isleta, Jemez, Laguna, Nambe, Picuris, Pojoaque, San
Ildefonso, San Juan, Santa Clara, Santo Domingo, Taos, Tesuque, Zia, Zuni
PEAVY, WILLIAM S. - Albuquerque doctor of horticultural science, author on health &
gardening, host of a radio talk show, & co-author with his son of Super
Nutrition Gardening
PECENY, MARK - Associate Professor of Political Science at UNM & a contributor to
The Peruvian Labyrinth: Polity, Society, Economy* & the author of Democracy
at the Point of Bayonets*
PECK, DONNA - Albuquerque co-author of the Very Special Raspberry Cookbook
PECK, RICHARD - Placitas, former UNM president, now UNM English professor, novelist,
playwright, author of New Mexico Experience, 1598-1998: a Confluence of
Cultures & novelist of Strategy
of Terror & Dead Pawn, the story of Bob Wince, an Albuquerque
building contractor, who’s sentenced to the NM State Penitentiary for a crime
he didn't commit. He’s granted an early
release & vows to re-establish his life & exact revenge on those who
set him up.
PERALTA, ROSALIE OTERO - former English professor at the University of Albuquerque & short
story author, who is included in Cuentos Chicanos (1980 ed.)
PEREA, KRISTINA - Albuquerque curator at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, &
author of Cuentos y Encuentros: Paintings by Ray Martín Abeyta
PEREA, ROBERT L. - Ogallala Lakota Sioux/Hispanic Vietnam veteran, educated at UNM, now
Arizona teacher & novelist of Stacey’s Story. He is also included in
Cuentos Chicanos, Earth Power Coming, Remembered Earth
& Returning the Gift
PEREZ, JEANNINE - Los Lunas 4th grade teacher at Acoma Pueblo
& author of Peace in Any Language*, to help people who work with
children, to instill inner peace & expand awareness of our relationship
with families, schools & the world with activities such as drama, art,
games, storytelling, & foods. She is also the author of Bulletin
Board Basics: Hands on Science* & Explore and Experiment*
PERINI, ROBIN -
PERKINS,
PERLMAN, SUSAN E. - Albuquerque owner of a contract ethnographic & history research
company & who is included in Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico
History
PETERS, EDYTHE CAMPBELL - Belen painter, businesswoman & poet who is included in Sandscript
p. 47 & Turquoise Land
PETERSEN, INEZ - UNM-educated, Quinault author; some of whose work can be found in Circle
of Women & Earth Song, Sky Spirit
PETERS, STEVE - Albuquerque composer & author of HERE*INGS: a Sonic Geohistory*,
an environmental sound exploration, with a CD
PETERSON, JEANNE WHITEHOUSE - UNM professor, director of the Rio Grande Writers
Project & author of many award-winning children's books, including Don't
Forget Winona, I Have a Sister My Sister Is Deaf, My Mama Sings,
Sometimes I Dream Horses, That Is That & While the Moon
Shines Bright
PFLOCK, KARL - Placitas UFO researcher & author of Roswell in Perspective
& Roswell: Inconvenient Facts & the Will to Believe &
co-author of Shockingly Close to the Truth! Confessions of a Grave-Robbing
Ufologist
PHILLIPS, JUDITH - Bernardo author of some of the best & earliest Southwestern xeriscape
gardening books: Natural By Design, New Mexico Gardener’s Guide, Plants
for Natural Gardens, & Southwestern Landscaping With Native Plants
PIGNO, ANTONIA QUINTANA - Albuquerque poet & author who is included in Southwestern
Women: New Voices. For further information, please see QUINTANA PIGNO, ANTONIA
PIJOAN, TERESA - Española-born, raised at the San Juan Pueblo Trading Post, now Albuquerque South Valley teacher of creative writing, collector of Hispanic & American Indian tales: La Cuentista, Healers on the Mountain, Listen, a Story Comes: Escucha, Que Viene un Cuento, Pueblo Indian Wisdom: Native American Legends and Mythology, Spanish-American Folktales: the Practical Wisdom of Spanish-Americans in 28 Eloquent & Simple Stories, Stories From a Dark and Evil World, Ways of Indian Magic, Ways of Indian Wisdom & White Wolf Woman: Native American Transformation Myths; & mystery author of Dead Kachina Man. She also wrote the children’s book of American Indian tales: White Wolf Woman
PINKUS, OSCAR - Sandia Park resident, poet, novelist of Victor* about a Russian
soldier who becomes a Nazi prisoner & survives a POW camp; & author of
his autobiography, The House of Ashes, a classic of Jewish Holocaust
literature
PINNELL, BILL - Albuquerque KNME's advertising coordinator & novelist of the NM
Territory western: Terror On the Border
PINO, MANUEL - Albuquerque Acoma Pueblo journalist & editor, included in Remembered
Earth: an Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature
PINO, PEDRO BAPTISTA - 19th century Tomé delegate to the Spanish Cádiz parliament &
author of Exposition on the Province of New Mexico, 1812 & Three
New Mexico Chronicles
PIPER, TI - freelance outdoor writer, journalist for the Albuquerque Tribune,
& author of Fishing in New Mexico
PITTMAN, KAREN - Albuquerque poet who is included in Turquoise Land
PLOSKI, CYNTHIA - Rio Rancho author of Conversations With My Healers, My Journey to
Wellness From Breast Cancer*
POLING, DAVID - Albuquerque retired Presbyterian minister
& author of Schweitzer: a Biography, Sea of Glory: a Novel: Based
on the True WW II Story of the Four Chaplains & the U.S.A.T. Dorchester
& To Be Born Again: the Conversion Phenomenon. He is related to one
of the four chaplains in his novel
POLISAR, LISA - Albuquerque jazz flutist, author of Straight
Ahead: a Musician’s Guide to Learning Jazz and Staying Inspired* &
mystery author of the riveting Blackwater Tango, set in NYC & Knee
Deep, an engrossing, touching,
archaeological mystery set in Placitas, Dixon, & Albuquerque
PONCE, MARY HELEN - Albuquerque-raised, former UNM teacher, now California professor,
novelist, short story author, biographer & memoirist of Hoyt Street: an
Autobiography. For additional information, see: Chicana Ways:
Conversations with Ten Chicana Writers, Currents From the Dancing River,
Infinite Divisions: an Anthology of Chicana Literature, Las Mujeres
Hablan, Southwest Tales: a Contemporary Collection & The Stories That Shape Us : Contemporary Women
Write About the West: an Anthology
POOLE, DAVID - Albuquerque musician & freelance author of River’s Bend,
his memories of fly-fishing with his father
POORE, ANNE - Albuquerque technical writer at Sandia National Laboratories, editor
of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico & co-editor of Secrets of a
City: Papers on Albuquerque Area
Archaeology in Honor of Richard A. Bice
POORE, ROBBY - Albuquerque illustrator of Medieval Herbal Remedies: the Old
English Herbarium & Anglo-Saxon Medicine, edited & translated by
his mother, ANNE VAN ARSDALL
POPE, JOHN W. - district court judge for Valencia, Cibola & Sandoval counties;
co-author of Workers’ Compensation In New Mexico & contributor to Heroes
of the Rio Abajo: Stories of the Brave Men & Women in Valencia County
History
PORTER, LYLE K. & WILMA H. - Albuquerque authors of History of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in New Mexico, 1876-1989
POSTON, JEFFREY - Albuquerque author of the Texas historical novel: The Peacekeeper
POWERS, DANIEL - Tijeras author & illustrator of Jiro’s Pearl, & illustrator
of Dear Katie, the Volcano is a Girl, From the Land of the White
Birch & Tuti, Blue Horse, and the Nipnope Man
POWERS, WILLOW ROBERTS - Santa Fe anthropologist, UNM & the
University of Iowa professor & author of Navajo Trading: the End of an
Era
PRECEK, KATHARINE WILSON - Albuquerque author of the children’s books: The Keepsake Chest
& Penny In the Road
PREDOCK, ANTOINE - acclaimed Albuquerque architect & author of his memoirs: Antoine
Predock, Architect
PRELUTSKY, JACK - beloved, prolific, former Albuquerque children's poet who’s written many books, including Baby Uggs Are Hatching, Circus, The Dragons Are Singing Tonight, Pizza the Size of the Sun, Ride a Purple Pelican & Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast, to name just a few!
PRESTON, MARK - Albuquerque author (& former California librarian) of California
Mission Cookery & co-author of The Hatch Chile Cookbook
PREUSCH, DEB - Albuquerque grass-roots & Latin American activist, editor of the New Mexico People and Energy Power Structure Reports & co-author of the Navajo children’s story, Red Ribbons For Emma
PRICE, ROBERTA - Albuquerque intellectual property attorney,
& photographer, who spent 6 ½ years at the Libre commune in southern
Colorado’s Huerfano Valley in
the late 1960’s. She’d taken photographs
at most of the communes in southern Colorado & northern NM, during that
time & wrote Huerfano, a Memoir of Life in the Counterculture.
PRICE, V.B. (VINCENT BARRETT) -
Albuquerque journalist, teacher, former editor of New Mexico & Century
magazines, UNM professor, novelist of The Oddity (set in Albuquerque),
architectural author of A City at the End of the World (about
Albuquerque), poet of Chaco Body, Chaco Trilogy: Poems, Mythwaking*
& Semblances, 1962-1971 & with his wife Rini, author of Seven
Deadly Sins. He is the co-editor of Anasazi
Architecture and American Design, is included in & co-edited In
Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 286+, New Mexico
Poetry Renaissance, Sandscript p. 46, Tarasque II & Turquoise
Land. He’s the son of the actor
Vincent Price & brother of Victoria Price
PRITCHETT, GRACE - Placitas teacher & author of The Road Goes This Way and That
Way
PTACEK, KATHRYN - Albuquerque-raised, UNM graduate, married to dark fantasy novelist Charles
Grant, they live in Newton, NJ. She’s
written an historical fantasy series, numerous historical romances under
various names, five horror novels, including Kachina*, set in NM & Shadow-eyes*
(alternate title is Shadoweyes*), set in the Sandia Mountains &
Albuquerque. She also edited Women of
Darkness II.
PUTCAMP, LUISE, JR. - Albuquerque author included in the new edition of the Chicken Soup for the Grandparent's Soul
PUTMAN, MIKE L. - UNM research geographer & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
PYLE, ERNIE - one of Albuquerque's most famous & loved WWII journalists,
Pulitzer-winning columnist & author of Brave Men, Ernie Pyle’s
Southwest, Ernie’s America: the Best of Ernie Pyle’s 1930's Travel
Dispatches, Ernie’s War: the Best of Ernie Pyle’s World War II
Dispatches, Here Is Your War, Home Country & Last
Chapter
QUENK, NAOMI - Albuquerque clinical psychologist, researcher on the elderly, author
of Beside Ourselves: Our Hidden Personality In Everyday Life* & Dream
Thinking: the Logic, Magic, and Meaning of Your Dreams*
QUINN, DANIEL - former Madrid resident, journalist & winner of the first
"Turner Tomorrow" award, for Ishmael; novelist of My
Ishmael: a Sequel, Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife...Known Commonly as
The Little Book & Story of B
QUINTANA, LEROY V. - Albuquerque-born, Raton-raised, former lecturer in the English
Department at UNM, now English professor at the San Diego Mesa College, winner
of an NEA award & the National Book Award, short story author of La
Promesa & Other Stories, author of several collections of poems,
including The Great Whirl of Exile, History of Home, My Hair
Turning Gray Among Strangers, & Sangre. He co-edited Paper
Dance: 55 Latino Poets. For
additional information, see also: Ceremony of Brotherhood, Floating
Borderlands, Hispanics in the United States: an Anthology of Creative
Literature, In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960
p. 262+, New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, Pasó Por Aquí p. 271+
& Voices From the Rio Grande
QUINTANA PIGNO, ANTONIA - Albuquerque poet included in Infinite Divisions: an Anthology of
Chicana Literature. For further information, please see PIGNO, ANTONIA QUINTANA
QUIST, H.L. "BUSTER" - a former
Albuquerque, now Phoenix sports star & author of Secrets: a Novel of
Golf and Politics & his memoirs, Bulldogs Forever: a History of
Albuquerque High School & a Memoir of the Class of 1954* & & Rediscovering
America! Growing Up in the 40s*
RACZEK, LINDA THERESA - Albuquerque-raised, now Cortez, CO
children’s author of the Ute Indian picture book, Night the Grandfathers
Danced, the 1995 winner of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Western
Heritage Award & Rainy’s Powwow.
She’s also included in Walking the Twilight: Women Writers of the
Southwest
RADA, STEVE - Cerrillos co-author of Exploring the New Mexico Wine Country
RADFORD, BENJAMIN - former Corrales resident, managing editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine, co-author of Hoaxes, Myths & Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking, & author of Media Mythmakers: How Journalists, Activists & Advertisers Mislead Us
RAEFF, ANNE - Albuquerque co-owner of Two Serious Ladies, a Nob Hill furniture store, short story author & novelist of Clara Mondschein's Melancholia, about two generations of Holocaust survivors who tell their grim, affecting tales
RAEL, JOSEPH (BEAUTIFUL PAINTED ARROW) - Bernalillo lecturer, philosopher, author of Being and Vibration, about his religious upbringing at Picuris, Beautiful Painted Arrow: Stories and Teachings & Ceremonies of the Living Spirit
RAIZIZUN, MAY M. - Arroyo Hondo-born, now Albuquerque retired teacher, artist, author & poet who is included in Turquoise Land
RAM DASS (BABA) - former Albuquerque professor, yogi with San Cristobal's Lama Foundation & author of Compassion In Action, How Can I Help?, Remember, Now Be Here, Now Here Be & Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing & Dying.
RAMO, ROBERTA COOPER - Albuquerque lawyer, first woman president of the American Bar Association & author of New Mexico Estate Administration System
RANDALL MARGARET - Albuquerque controversial feminist, oral historian, social activist, teacher, dissident, photographer, poet & author of Albuquerque: Coming Back To The U.S.A., Coming Home: Peace Without Complacency, The Coming Home Poems, Dancing With the Doe: New & Selected Poems 1986-1991, Hunger's Table: Women, Food & Politics, Into Another Time: Grand Canyon Reflections: Poems, Narrative of Power: Essays for an Endangered Century, The Price You Pay: the Hidden Cost of Women's Relationship to Money, We & Women Brave In the Face of Danger: Photographs of & Writings by Latin & North American Women. Some of her other work is included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 130+, New Mexico Poetry Renaissance & The Practice of Peace
RANDLES, SLIM - columnist for New Mexico Magazine & Albuquerque Journal,
adjunct professor of journalism at UNM, outdoorsman, natural history
journalist, hunting guide & novelist of Long Dark: an Alaskan Winter’s
Tale & Raven’s Prey. He also wrote Ol' Max Evans: The First
Thousand Years, & is also included in Hot Biscuits: Eighteen Stories
by Women and Men of the Ranching West
RATKEVICH, RONALD PAUL - former Albuquerque Curator of Paleontology for the Center for Anthropological Studies, now, Alamogordo author of several books on Dinosaurs of the Southwest, Field Guide to New Mexico Fossils, Ice Age Animals of the Rio Grande Valley, & Meet New Mexico’s State Dinosaur
RAYBURN, ROSALIE - Albuquerque Journal business writer who lived in Saudi Arabia & is the author of Living & Working in Saudi Arabia: Your Guide to a Successful Short or Long-Term Stay*
RAYES, MITCH - formerly from Chiapas, now Albuquerque
poet & publisher of The Tongue, a
monthly newsletter of local poetry events.
He’s also included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets
After 1960 p. 492+
RÉ, PAUL - Albuquerque artist & autobiographer of: Dance of the Pencil:
Serene Art By Paul Ré
REBOLLEDO, TEY DIANA - Las Vegas-born, Regents' Professor of Spanish at UNM, poet, author of Nuestras Mujeres: Hispanas of New Mexico, Women Singing In the Snow: a Cultural Analysis of Chicana Literature, editor of Infinite Divisions, Las Mujeres Hablan, Women's Tales From the New Mexico WPA: La Diabla a Pie & contributor to Chicana Creativity and Criticism, Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy: Forms, Agencies & Discourse, Old Southwest/New Southwest & Paso Por Aqui
REBORD, BERNICE ANN - author of A Social History of Albuquerque, 1880-1885
RECK, ROBERT - Albuquerque contributing photographer to Architectural Digest & has been published in most of the major architectural journals worldwide. He was the lead photographer for the books Facing Southwest, Santa Fe Style & The Small Adobe House
REEVE, FRANK DRIVER - UNM professor, NM historian, editor of the New Mexico Historical Review & author of Forts and Forays: a Dragoon in New Mexico, History of New Mexico, New Mexico, Land of Many Cultures & who is also included in New Mexico, Past and Present; a Historical Reader
REEVES, FAYE COUCH - Albuquerque author of the children's novel, Howie Merton and the Magic Dust
REID, ROBERT - former UNM professor of creative nonfiction & nature writing, former mountaineering leader for the Sierra Club, essayist, & author of America, New Mexico & Mountains of the Great Blue Dream
REILLY, HELEN - well-regarded 1930s Albuquerque mystery
author of more than 40 mysteries, most set in NYC, but 2 are set in the
Sandias: The Day She Died* & Follow Me. She was the mother of MARY MCMULLEN & URSULA REILLY CURTISS
REILLY, MARY -
Albuquerque Edgar-winning author who wrote under the pseudonym, MARY MCMULLEN
REMLEY, DAVID - UNM professor emeritus, now Silver City winner of the Historical Society of NM's Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award; author of Bell Ranch & Erna Fergusson, editor of Adios Nuevo Mexico: the Santa Fe Journal of John Watts in 1859, & who is included in Southwest Towards the Twenty-First Century
RESCIGNA, BRUNO - former Albuquerque, now Wilmington, Del. stockbroker, playwright & short story author who is included in Elysian Fields Quarterly: the Baseball Review
REX, HEATHER - UNM maps reference librarian & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
REYES, MITCH - formerly from Chiapas, now Albuquerque
poet & publisher of The Tongue, a
monthly newsletter of local poetry events.
He’s also included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets
After 1960 p. 492+
REYNALDS, JEREMY - Albuquerque's Joy Junction founder & director, evangelical lay
minister & author of Homeless In America: the Solution, it's new
edition, Homeless in the USA & Walking Wounded: a Look at Faith
Theology*
REYNOLDS, STEPHEN- Albuquerque-raised, former NM game warden, then Alaskan wildlife officer, now author of his memoirs: Beyond the Killing Tree: a Journey of Discovery
RHETTS, PAUL - Los Ranchos public relations expert, co-author of Charlie Carrillo: Tradition and Soul/Tradición y Alma, Nicholas Herrera: Visiones de mi Corazón, Our Saints Among Us = Nuestros Santos Entre Nosotros: 400 Years of New Mexican Devotional Art, The Regis Santos: Thirty Years of Collecting & co-editor of Seeds of Struggle/Harvest of Faith
RHINE, STANLEY - professor emeritus in the Department of Anthropology at UNM, forensic anthropologist & author of Bone Voyage: a Journey in Forensic Anthropology
RICHARDS, C. FENTON, JR. - Albuquerque photographer & co-author of Santa Fe - The Chief Way, a nostalgic look at the Santa Fe Railroad
RICHEY, WILL - Albuquerque conservative black author of Racism is a Myth*
RICHTER, CONRAD - Albuquerque Pulitzer & National Book Award-winning author of frontier
novels & short stories including Early Americana, & Other
Stories & The Rawhide Knot & Other Stories, both of which
contain “Early Americana”, which is set in Carnuel
RICHTER, HARVENA - UNM professor emerita, a Virginia Woolf scholar, daughter of CONRAD RICHTER, author of novels, literary
criticism & poetry: Green Girls: Poems Early & Late, The
Human Shore, The Innocent Island, Passage to Teheran*, a
charming novella about a journey taken in the mid-‘50s by two writers, on a
Vespa, from Genoa to Teheran, Virginia Woolf: the Inward Voyage, Writing
to Survive & The Yaddo Elegies, and Other Poems. She’s also
included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p.
152+, Turquoise Land & Voices From the Rio Grande
RICKS, J. BRENT - Albuquerque businessman, attorney & author who contributed to Kachinas: Spirit Beings of the Hopi
RIO WRITERS see
FORREST, GEORGE, TIKKUN,
KUAN & WALTERS,
JANICE F.
RIVERA, JOSÉ A. - administrator, associate professor of public administration at UNM & author of Acequia Culture: Water, Land and Community in the Southwest. He is also included in Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy: Forms, Agencies & Discourse
RIVERA, ROWENA A. - Albuquerque author of fiction & nonfiction, associate professor of Spanish at UNM, co-author of Penitente Self-Government: Brotherhoods and Councils, & contributor to Paso Por Aqui. For more information, see Currents From the Dancing River
RIX, MATTHEW L. - Albuquerque author of Beating the Bark Beetles: Defending Your Valuable Trees Against Bark Beetles & Other Destructive Pests
ROBB, (J. D.) JOHN DONALD - Albuquerque musical historian, composer of an opera based on Robert Bright’s novel, The Life & Death of Little Jo; & author of Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest & Hispanic Folk Songs of New Mexico; he is also included in Bicentennial ‘76 - Albuquerque Remembers.
ROBERTS, CALVIN A. - Albuquerque Del Norte High School social studies teacher, husband of SUSAN & co-author of History of New Mexico & New Mexico
ROBERTS, JOHN MADDOX - Ohio-born, Estancia-area author of mysteries & science fiction, probably most well-known for his ancient Roman mystery series (the 1st was nominated for an Edgar Award as best mystery of the year): SPQR I: The King's Gambit, SPQR II: The Catiline Conspiracy, SPQR III: The Sacrilege, SPQR IV: The Temple of the Muses, SPQR V: Saturnalia, SPQR VI: Nobody Loves a Centurion, SPQR VII: The Tribune's Curse, & SPQR VIII: The River God's Vengeance. He’s also written another mystery, A Typical American Town. His science fiction includes Hannibal's Children & Legacy of Prometheus
ROBERTS, RHIANWEN - was born & raised in Wales, presently lives in Albuquerque, where most of the time, she has been dreaming, researching & writing the novel: A Destiny is Sworn*
ROBERTS, RUTH COLLINS - early Albuquerque memoirist of Pinto Beans and a Silver Spoon, with her sister LULA COLLINS DAUDET; & poet who is included in Earth Chant
ROBERTS, SUSAN ANN - Albuquerque Del Norte High School social studies teacher & co-author of Civics for New Mexicans, History of New Mexico & New Mexico
ROBIN, DIANA - UNM's Dept. of Foreign Languages & Literature Chairperson, who received a National Endowment for the Humanities' grant, for Latin translations of 2 collections of women's letters: Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist* & Filelfo In Milan*
ROBINSON, SHERRY - business editor for the Albuquerque Tribune, former editor of New Mexico Business Weekly, former business writer for the Albuquerque Journal & author of Apache Voices: Their Stories of Survival as Told to Eve Ball & El Malpais, Mt. Taylor, and the Zuni Mountains: a Hiking Guide and History
ROCK, MICHAEL - Albuquerque co-author of Huning Highland Neighborhood Walking Tour and Armchair Guide
RODEE, MARIAN - curator of Southwest Ethnology at UNM’s Maxwell Museum, & author of authoritative books on Native American art, including Fetish Carvers of Zuni, One Hundred Years of Navajo Rugs, Weaving of the Southwest & Zuni Pottery. She is also the co-author of Zuni: a Village of Silversmiths & is included in Legacy: Southwest Indian Art at the School of American Research, Navajo Saddle Blankets: Textiles to Ride in the American West & Navajo Religion & Culture: Selected Views: Papers in Honor of Leland C. Wyman
RODRIGUEZ, B.K. (BERNADETTE KARINMARTA) - native New Mexican muralist, painter,
director of Albuquerque’s Fiesta Artistica, & contributor to Ceremony of
Brotherhood & Las Mujeres Hablan
RODRIGUEZ, KENN - member of the Albuquerque team who competed in the National Poetry Slam Championships & who’s included in Shine On You Crazy Diamond: Poems By Teens & Their Mentors
RODRIGUEZ, SYLVIA - associate professor of anthropology at UNM & author of The Matachines Dance: Ritual Symbolism and Interethnic Relations in the Upper Rio Grande Valley. She is also included in Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy: Forms, Agencies & Discourse
ROE, FRANCIS - former vascular surgeon at Yale Hospital & now, Albuquerque mystery novelist of Doctors and Doctors’ Wives & Intensive Care
ROENSCH, ELEANOR "JERRY" STONE - Albuquerque author of reminiscences as a member of the Women's Army Corps in Los Alamos, during WWII: Life Within Limits: Glimpses of Everyday Life at Los Alamos, New Mexico
ROGERS, EVERETT M. - co-author with Nancy R. Bartlit of Silent Voices of World War II: When
Sons of the Land of Enchantment Met Sons of the Land of the Rising Sun: the
NM National Guard was the 1st US military unit to fight the Japanese, holding
on for 4 months on Bataan, & then suffering through years in POW camps. The
atomic bomb was developed in
ROGERS, JEFFERSON S. - Las Cruces native, geographer at the University of Tennessee & co-author of The Motel in America, which in part discusses Albuquerque
ROGERS, RONALD - Albuquerque Cherokee teacher, poet & short story author, who is included in Remembered Earth, Songs From This Earth On Turtle’s Back & Voice of the Turtle
ROHR, RICHARD -
Albuquerque essayist & author of Discovering the Enneagram: an Ancient
Tool for a New Spiritual Journey
ROMERO, CYNTHIA & ARTHUR - Albuquerque authors of Albuquerque Trivia
ROMERO, MARY ANN & CARLOS - native Santa Feans, now living in Albuquerque, who wrote Los Bilingos, a humorous column on their family life, for the Santa Fe New Mexican, which then became Los Bilingos, the book
ROMERO, REGINA - Albuquerque author of Flora’s Kitchen: Recipes from a New Mexico Family, a mixture of traditional NM recipes & a history of her family, original Spanish settlers in northern NM
ROSENSTEIN, BETH - Albuquerque co-author of the Very Special Raspberry Cookbook
ROSENTHAL, DEBORAH - Albuquerque ethicist & author of a book of interviews with atomic & nuclear scientists: At the Heart of the Bomb
ROSNER, JOAN & HY - Albuquerque co-authors of Albuquerque's Environmental Story: Toward a Sustainable Community
ROSS, ALLISON (pseudonym of Louise Anderson) - Albuquerque author of I Saw Time: Time and Places, Time and People, Time and Questings, & poet who is included in Sandscript p. 53, Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950 & Turquoise Land
ROSS, TOM - Albuquerque-born, Santa Fe artist, owner of the Leaping Lizard Gallery, environmental writer for TV animation, children's author of the picture books Eggbert, the Slightly Cracked Egg, Irma the Flying Bowling Ball, & illustrator of Betsy Hoffman’s Haunted Places
ROTH, HENRY - one of the most unusual 20th century novelists, the Albuquerque author who wrote what has been called the Great American Jewish novel, Call It Sleep, & its sequels, Diving Rock On the Hudson & From Bondage
ROYCE, STEPHEN - Albuquerque businessman & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
RUBIN, GAIL - Albuquerque author of A Girl's Pocket Guide to
Trouser Trout: Reflections on Dating & Fly-Fishing
RUDD, MERRI - Albuquerque attorney, owner of Abogada Press, author of Life Planning in New Mexico & co-author with BARBARA L. SHAPIRO of Family Law in New Mexico
RUDNER, RUTH - Corrales author whose work has appeared frequently in the Leisure & Arts Section of the Wall Street Journal, & a contributing editor at Ski, Skiing, & Self magazines. She is the author of Windstone: Natural Arches, Bridges, and Other Openings, photographed by DAVID MUENCH & contributed to Sacred Lands of Indian America. Her nine previously published books include Wandering*, Forgotten Pleasures*, Bitterroot to Beartooth*, & Walking*
RUDOLPH, PENNY - Albuquerque journalist, magazine article
writer, short story author, playwright, teacher of journalism & creative
writing at NMSU & the author of a western with a touch of romance, Listen
to the Mockingbird.
The novel is set on a horse ranch in the Mesilla Valley,
during the Civil War. Her second novel
is a mystery starring Rachel Chavez,
who owns & lives in an LA parking garage, in Thicker Than Blood*
RUNNINGWOLF, MICHAEL B. - Tomé Micmac folk healer, artist, storyteller, teacher & co-author with PATRICIA CLARK SMITH, of the children’s book, On the Trail of Elder Brother: Glous'gap Stories of the Micmac Indians
RUSK, DAVID - former Albuquerque mayor & author of Cities Without Suburbs
RYAN, DAVID & CLAUDIA - Albuquerque
authors of Free & Easy: How to Create Your Own Adventure by Living on
the Road, about examining the possibilities of doing something else
with your life
RYAN, NAN - Albuquerque romance novelist of many novels, including the mischievous historical Western romance, The Princess Goes West (set partially in NM)
SABATINI, JOE - Albuquerque
librarian, manager of the Special Collections Library, former manager of the
Main Library in Albuquerque, compiler of An Index of Photographs in
Albuquerque: 100 Years in Pictures, 1875-1975, by GEORGE FITZPATRICK & HARVEY CAPLIN; & indexer of Do You
Remember?: a Series of Articles on Old Albuquerque, Printed in the Albuquerque
"Herald", 1922-1923 by ERNA FERGUSSON
SABERHAGEN, FRED - one of Albuquerque's most renowned,
influential & popular science fiction novelists, known especially for his
series: "Lost Swords", "Berserker", "Book of the
Gods"; his Octagon* is set in Los Alamos; & one of his vampire
novels A Question of Time is set in the Grand Canyon. He is also included in An Armory of Swords,
Lord of the Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny, The
Williamson Effect & Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and
Fantasy. He is married to the
novelist JOAN SPICCI
SABERHAGEN, TOM - NM-raised son of FRED SABERHAGEN & JOAN SPICCI, a business system consultant, & author who is included in An Armory of Swords
SACHS, MELANIE - former Albuquerque author of Ayurvedic Beauty Care* & wife of ROBERT
SACHS, ROBERT - former Albuquerque massage therapist, social worker with Presbyterian Hospice, co-director of Diamond Way Health Associates & author of Complete Guide to Nine Star Ki*, Health for Life: Secrets of Tibetan Ayurveda, & Rebirth Into Pure Land*
SAENZ, ADOLPH - NM former Secretary of Corrections; he worked for the federal government, assisting security forces in Latin America, now Albuquerque author of Politics of a Prison Riot & The OPS Story
SAINZ, GUSTAVO - UNM professor & author of Los Mejores Cuentos Mexicanos & The Princess of the Iron Palace; he is also included in Tierra: Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico
SÁLAZ (MARQUEZ), RUBÉN DARÍO - Corrales' former public school teacher,
inventor, essayist, playwright, historian, author of Cosmic: the La Raza
Sketch Book, Epic of the Greater Southwest: New Mexico, Texas,
California, Arizona, Oklahoma, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Heartland:
Stories of the Southwest, New Mexico - a Brief Multi-History &
who is included in: Voces: an Anthology & Tierra: Contemporary
Short Fiction of New Mexico
SALAZAR, J. RICHARD - author of Old Versus New: a Glimpse at Anglo-Hispanic Relations in
1880s Albuquerque
SALINAS-NORMAN, BOBBI - former Albuquerque publisher of Piñata Publications, & author of Folk Art Traditions I, Folk Art Traditions II & Indo-Hispanic Folk Art Traditions I. She also wrote the very funny bilingual children’s folktale: The Three Pigs: Nacho, Tito, and Miguel
SALINGER, ADRIENNE - UNM professor of photography & author of the highly acclaimed book of photographs, Living Solo
SALMON, PAMELA - East Mountain competitive skier & author of Sandia Peak: the History of the Sandia Peak Tramway and Ski Area
SALVADOR, MARI LYN C. - Chief Curator at UNM’s Maxwell Museum of Anthropology & author of Cuando Hablan Los Santos: Contemporary Santero Traditions From Northern New Mexico
SAMET, JONATHAN M. - UNM Cancer Center, NM Tumor Registry director, editor of Indoor Air Pollution: a Health Perspective & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
SAMORA, JULIAN - Colorado-born, visiting professor at UNM, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Notre Dame, historian, author of Gunpowder Justice: a Reassessment of the Texas Rangers, A History of the Mexican-American People, Los Mojados: the Wetback Story & Mexican-Americans in the Southwest
SAMUELS, PEGGY & HAROLD - Corrales authorities on Southwestern & Western art, & authors of Contemporary Western Artists, Everyone’s Guide to Buying Art, Frederic Remington: a Biography, Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West, & Remington: the Complete Prints
SÁNCHEZ, GEORGE - Albuquerque educator, civil rights activist & author of Forgotten People: a Study of New Mexicans
SANCHEZ, IRENE BARRAZA - Gallup-born, now Tomé co-author of Comida Sabrosa: Homestyle Southwestern Cooking with her sister-in-law, GLORIA SANCHEZ YUND, & who is also included in Las Mujeres Hablan
SANCHEZ, JOSEPH P. - Albuquerque Historian for the National Park Service, Director of the Spanish Colonial Research Center, editor of several titles, including Historia de la Nueva Mexico, 1610; author of among others, Don Fernando Durán y Chaves's Land & Legacy, & The Rio Abajo Frontier, 1540-1692: a History of Early Colonial New Mexico. He’s also a contributor to History of Hope: the African American Experience in New Mexico
SANCHEZ, JUANITA M. - Albuquerque machinist, curandera, poet & author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan & Sandscript p. 48
SANCHEZ, LAURA & ALEX - she previously ran a drafting business that specialized in adobe houses. He has taught courses in adobe construction & solar energy, founded & currently heads the renowned computer-aided drafting program at the UNM -Valencia Campus. Together the Los Lunas couple wrote Adobe Houses for Today: Flexible Plans for Your Adobe Home
SANDERSIER, ANDY - Tijeras hiker, fisherman & author of Lakes of New Mexico: a Guide to Recreation
SANDO, JOE S. - Jemez Pueblo-born, Albuquerque poet, teacher & director of the Institute of Pueblo Indian Studies at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Institute, & author of several Native American histories: Nee Hemish, a History of Jemez Pueblo, Pope: Leader of the First American Revolution: August 10, 1680*, The Pueblo Indians, Pueblo Nations: Eight Centuries of Pueblo Indian History & Pueblo Profiles: Cultural Identity Through Centuries of Change. He is also included in New Mexican Lives: Profiles & Historical Stories, Remembered Earth, & Through Indian Eyes: the Untold Story of Native American Peoples
SANDS, NICHOLS - a poet since he returned from Vietnam, his contemporary jewelry-making had to be abandoned because of his disability; although he later created striking colorful "jeweled meditation windows" of glass. He & his co-author, ARDEN TICE, of In Time to Tango, met in Albuquerque, when they started a Veterans' writing group
SARGEANT, KATHRYN - archaeologist & co-author of Shining River, Precious Land: an Oral History of Albuquerque’s North Valley. She is also included in Secrets of a City: Papers on Albuquerque Area Archaeology in Honor of Richard A. Bice
SATTERTHWAIT, WALTER - former Albuquerque, now Santa Fe mystery author of a popular Santa Fe
private-eye series: Accustomed to the Dark, At Ease With the Dead,
Flower in the Desert, Hanged Man, Wall of Glass; &
several historical mysteries, including Miss Lizzie (about Lizzie
Borden) & Wilde West. He’s
also written 3 Pinkerton novels with agents Jane Turner & and Phil
Beaumont: Escapade, Masquerade & Cavalcade
SAUNDERS, MARY CHLOE SCHOOLCRAFT - Albuquerque author of Spread Your Wings and Fly: an Origami Fold-and-Tell, a paperfolding book in story form, with a message about self-esteem and spiritual attainment
SAVORY, ALLAN - Albuquerque co-founder of the Center for Holistic Management & author of Holistic Resource Management
SAWYER, TIMOTHY L. JR. - a public information representative with UNM
& co-author with ELISEO "CHEO"
TORRES, of Curandero: a
Life in Mexican Folk Healing
SAYLOR, DENNIS E. - author
of the 1980 book, Songs in the Night: the Story of Marion K. Van Devanter,
who was Albuquerque’s Presbyterian Hospital’s Goodwill Ambassador
SCHACKEL, SANDRA - former Albuquerquean, now an associate professor of history at Boise State University, author of Social Housekeepers: Women Shaping Public Policy in New Mexico, 1920-1940, & she is included in Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico History & New Mexico Women: Intercultural Perspectives
SCHARFF, VIRGINIA - UNM history professor, director of the Center for the Southwest & author of Taking the Wheel, Women and the Coming of the Motor Age & Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, & the West. She edited & is included in Seeing Nature Through Gender. She is also included in Multicultural Southwest: a Reader & Western Women's Lives: Continuity & Change in the Twentieth Century. More information on her can be found under VIRGINIA SWIFT
SCHARGEL, FRANKLIN P. - Albuquerque educator & author of Dropout Prevention Tools & Strategies to Help Solve Our School Dropout Problem
SCHARNHORST, GARY - English professor at UNM & co-editor of American Realism and
the Canon*, which was selected as one of the Outstanding Academic Books for
1995, by Choice Magazine & Bret Harte: Opening the American
Literary West*, which won the Western Literature Association's Thomas J.
Lyon Award for the outstanding book in Western American literary criticism
SCHAUER, SANDY - entrepreneur, editor & reporter for the Valencia County News-Bulletin; & contributor to Heroes of the Rio Abajo: Stories of the Brave Men and Women in Valencia County History
SCHICK, ELEANOR - Albuquerque children's author & illustrator of many picture books, including Home Alone, My Album, Navajo ABC, Navajo Wedding Day, Piano for Julie, & Summer at the Sea; as well as a children’s novel, My Navajo Sister
SCHLATTER, EVELYN - Albuquerque historian & editor who is included in Gone, Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains
SCHMEDDING, JOSEPH - Albuquerque author of his autobiography: Cowboy
and Indian Trader, about his life working as a ranch hand for William C.
McDonald, before he became Governor, for Richard Wetherill in Chaco Canyon as a
horseman, & as a trader in Arizona
SCHMIDT, FRED - Albuquerque author of a Western novel, Chaco Banyon: Sheriff of Lordsburg
SCHULTZ, RANDALL & VIRGINIA - Albuquerque authors of "The Consumer's Guide to Planet Earth" a pamphlet guide to environmentally conscious products & How to Save Water At Home
SCHWOEBEL, RICHARD - Albuquerque resident & a member of the team of scientists from Sandia National Labs who investigated the Explosion Aboard the Iowa
SCOTT, CATHERINE J. - anthropologist,
archaeologist & research curator of the Maxwell Museum, & co-author of Mimbres
Pottery: Ancient Art of the American Southwest: Essays
SCOTT, JAY see BEAVEN, JAY SCOTT
SCOTT, LATAYNE - Santa Fe-born, now Albuquerque author of Mormon Mirage: a Former Mormon Tells Why She Left the Church, novelist of The Red Cord of Hope: When History Stopped for One Woman of Faith*, co-editor of the collection, Earth Chant, & poet who is included in Sandscript p. 96 & Turquoise Land
SCRIBES EIGHT - Albuquerque-based collaboration of eight authors & calligraphers,
who wrote, A Book: Literary and Visual Musings on the Letter A. The
authors include RUDOLFO ANAYA, John Brandi, PAUL FLEISCHMAN, JOY
HARJO, Judyth Hill, Joan Logghe, John Nichols, & LESLIE MARMON
SILKO. The calligraphers include: KATHY
CHILTON, Mary Lou Cook,
Mike Gold, Amy Jones, Suzanne Moore, Bob Phillips, Diana Stetson, & Fred
Yost
SCURLOCK, DAN - Albuquerque historian & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
SEBASTIAN, LYNNE - Santa Fe archaeologist, State Historic Preservation Officer, UNM professor & author of Chaco Anasazi: Sociopolitical Evolution in the Prehistoric Southwest & contributor to In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma, & Treasures on New Mexico Trails: Discover New Deal Art and Architecture
SEDBERRY, CAROLYN N. - co-author with MARGARET H. DIKE, of Bicentennial '76:
Albuquerque Remembers
SEDILLO, MICHELLE - Albuquerque author, who is included in Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers
SEGALE, SISTER BLANDINA - Sisters of Charity nun who received the 1st teacher’s certificate issued in NM; directed Santa Fe’s St. Vincent’s Hospital & Albuquerque’s St. Vincent’s Academy & author of her autobiography, At the End of the Santa Fe Trail
SEIDLER, KIM - UNM geographer & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
SELL, DEWITT - Albuquerque scientist, firearms expert & author of Handguns Americana
SENDER, RAMON JOSE - distinguished Spanish author who spent much of his life in exile,
former UNM professor of Spanish literature, & author of Tales of Cibola,
set in NM
SEXSON, SUZETTE - a native New Mexican, Tijeras poet who grew up in Albuquerque, received a Master of Science degree from UNM in Communicative Disorders & who worked as a licensed speech-language pathologist for many years. The Stained Glass Soul* is her first book. She recently received an Honorable Mention Award in the rhyming poem category of the 72nd Annual Writer’s Digest Competition that attracted 18,000 entries
SHANAHAN, DANNY - Corrales' New Yorker Magazine cartoonist & author of Lassie! Get Help! & the children’s picture book, Buckledown, the Workhound
SHANNON, JEANNE - Albuquerque publisher, editor, poet, & author of Stars Scattered Like Seeds, a collection of short stories, poems & memoirs; who is also included in Earth Chant, In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 210+, Queen Anne's Lace: Poems, Sandscript p. 82 & The Spirit That Wants Me. Her chapbooks include Cinnabar, Dissolving Forms, House on Afternoon Street, Liquidambar & Moon of Changing Seasons
SHANTI, DARSHAN G. - Albuquerque author of The Possible You. He’s the president & CEO of Satori
International, Inc., a company whose mission is “To challenge people to break
out of their old patterns & enter into new realms in their personal &
business lives.” The company works with people & organizations to assist
them in quickly realizing their highest potential by helping them to discover
what has been stopping them. This is accomplished through development
seminars. The Possible You has
inspired, channeled, spiritual (non-religious) messages in poetic form that
will speak to your soul
SHAPIRO, BARBARA - Albuquerque family law attorney & co-author with MERRI RUDD, of Family Law in New Mexico
SHATAR, KAREN MELODY- Lovelace midwife & author of Sacred Path of Midwifery
SHAW, CHRIS - Albuquerque co-author of New Mexico Mountain Bike Guide
SHEEHAN, PATTY - Albuquerque psychotherapist, teacher, performance storyteller &
author of several children's picture books, including: Gwendolyn’s Gifts,
Kylie’s Concert, Kylie’s Song, & Shadow and the Ready Time
SHELTON, CONNIE - Angel Fire author of a mystery series starring Charlie Parker, an
Albuquerque female CPA: Deadly Gamble, Vacations Can Be Murder, Partnerships
Can Kill, Small Towns Can Be Murder, Memories Can Be Murder, Honeymoons
Can Be Murder, Reunions Can Be Murder & Competition Can Be
Murder (in chronological order). She is married to DAN SHELTON
SHELTON, DAN - former Albuquerque, now Angel Fire helicopter service owner, & author of the terrorist novel: Assault on the Venture
SHEPHERD, URSULA - Albuquerque natural history teacher & author of Nature Notes: a Notebook Companion to the Season*
SHETTLES, LANDRUM B. - UNM-educated expert in female infertility & author of How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby
SHIGEKUNI, JULIE - 5th-generation
Japanese American former teacher at Santa Fe's Institute of American Indian
Arts, now Corrales creative writing professor
at UNM & award-winning novelist of A Bridge Between Us (set in
California) & Invisible Gardens (a psychological novel about a young
woman in her 30s, set in Albuquerque)
SHORTY, LAWRENCE - Navajo scholar, working on his doctorate in health education at UNM
& contributor to A People's Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living
SHOUMATOFF, ALEX - former Albuquerque author of Legends of the American Desert: Sojourns in the Greater Southwest, Mountain of Names: a History of the Human Family, & The World Is Burning, among others
SHPAKOW, TANYA - Albuquerque author of several children's picture books, including Baba & On the Way to Christmas
SHULTIS, CHRISTOPHER - UNM music professor, College of Fine Arts associate professor & author of Silencing the Sounded Self: John Cage and the American Experimental Tradition*
SHUNNY, JOHN - Albuquerque author of The Sandia Peak
& La Madera Ski Patrol: a History, 1937 to 1986 & editor of Ski
Touring in Northern New Mexico: a Guide to Ski Touring in the National Forests
of Northern New Mexico & Certain Areas of Southern Colorado. He was the editor of the Sandia Lab News & organized & ran white-water trips down the Colorado River in the
Grand Canyon
SILKO, LESLIE MARMON - Albuquerque-born & Laguna Pueblo-raised, now Tucson poet & novelist of Almanac of the Dead, Ceremony, Gardens in the Dunes & Storyteller. For more information, see: Carriers of the Dream Wheel, Earth Power Coming, Growing Up Native American, Lightning Within, Pueblo Imagination: Landscape & Memory in the Photography of Lee Marmon, Remembered Earth, Reinventing the Enemy’s Language, Sisters of the Earth, p. 100+, Songs From This Earth On Turtle’s Back, Southwest Stories: Tales From the Desert, Speaking for the Generations: Native Writers on Writing, The Stories That Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write About the West: an Anthology, & Words in the Blood. She is a cousin of Paula Gunn Allen, LEE FRANCIS, & Carol Lee Sanchez
SIMMONS, HAL - Albuquerque attorney, brother of MARC & novelist of the adventure/mystery novel, Deadly Gold, set in a small town in Colorado
SIMMONS, MARC - Cerrillos' prize-winning historian, essayist, & author of, among
others, Albuquerque, a Narrative History, Coronado’s Land, Following
the Santa Fe Trail, Hispanic Albuquerque, 1706-1846, Kit Carson
& His Three Wives, New Mexico, a Bicentennial History, Spanish
Pathways: Readings in the History of Hispanic New Mexico, When Six-Guns
Ruled, & Witchcraft In the Southwest. He is also included in A
More Abundant Life: New Deal Artists & Public Art in New Mexico, Voices
From the Southwest & Tierra: Contemporary Short Fiction of New
Mexico. He is a former Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship, & in 1993 the King of Spain granted him membership in the
knightly Order of Isabela la Católica for his contributions to Spanish colonial
history. His children’s books include a history of
SIMMONS, STEVE - Corrales photographer, publisher of Camera Arts & View Camera magazines & author of Using the View Camera, all about large format photography
SIMMS, J. DENTON - Albuquerque minister & author of his autobiography, Cowboys, Indians, and Pulpits
SIMONS, VICKI - Albuquerque turtle rescue expert & author of The Box Turtle Handbook
SINCLAIR, JOHN L. - Bernalillo historian of New Mexico, the Shining Land, cowboy, museum curator, western novelist of Cousin Drewey and the Holy Twister, In Time of Harvest; author of 2 autobiographical works: Cowboy Riding Country & Cowboy Writer in New Mexico. He is also included in Enduring Cowboys: Life in the New Mexico Saddle
SINGH KHALSA, DHARMA - former Albuquerque physician & Sikh author of Brain Longevity & The New Golden Rules*
SITCHLER, ROSA CALKINS - Albuquerque-born, now Abilene, retired legal secretary & historical romance author of Acequia Madre, set in Albuquerque during statehood, the Depression & WWII
SKINNER, JOSÉ - author of Flight and Other Stories, who lived for parts of the 1980s & '90s in Albuquerque & Santa Fe
SKREPCINSKI, DENICE - Albuquerque Pillsbury Bake-Off finalist, children’s cooking class teacher & co-author of Cody Coyote Cooks! & Silly Celebrations!: Activities for the Strangest Holidays You've Never Heard Of
SLATER, SUSAN - Albuquerque human relations manager,
creative writing teacher & author of several excellent mystery novels,
starring Ben Pecos, a Tewa psychologist with Indian Health Services: the first
is Pumpkin Seed Massacre, followed by Yellow Lies & Thunderbird.
She's also the author of the mysteries, Flash Flood, with insurance
investigator Dan Mahoney, set in Tatum & Five O'Clock Shadow which
is set in Albuquerque
SMITH, CAROL COX - Albuquerque expert on substance abuse, business management, Albuquerque historian & author of Albuquerque Colors: a Closer Look at the Colorful City on the Rio Grande
SMITH, EARL & ROSE - Albuquerque authors of 101 Ways to Date Your Mate* & Sizzling Monogamy: How to Have a Lifetime of Passion and Romance
SMITH, HERBERT H. - former
SMITH, JAUNE QUICK-TO-SEE - Corrales Cree/Flathead/Shoshone modernist painter/printmaker of landscapes & Indian figures; & illustrator of LUCI TAPAHONSO’s A Breeze Swept Through. She’s also a contributor to Every Day is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women
SMITH, JULIA SHIREK - Albuquerque translator of Spanish short fiction, including Tomorrow I’ll Say, Enough* by Argentinean Silvina Bullrich. She is a former librarian at NM Highlands University
SMITH, KARLEENE - Albuquerque planner for the Middle Rio Grande Council of Governments & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
SMITH, LAURA L. - Albuquerque Public Schools psychologist who wrote with her husband, CHARLES H. ELLIOTT, Depression For Dummies, Hollow Kids: Recapturing the Soul of a Generation Lost to the Self-Esteem Myth & Why Can’t I Be the Parent I Want to Be?: End Old Patterns and Enjoy Your Children
SMITH, LAYNE VICKERS see LAYNE, MARION MARGERY
SMITH, LINDA WASMER - Albuquerque medical journalist & author of Of Mind and Body*,
which discusses mind/body medicine & the children’s biography, Louis
Pasteur: Disease Fighter
SMITH, MARTIN CRUZ - Yaqui/Isleta Pueblo (raised in Tularosa & Las Lunas) mystery & horror author of unusual novels, including Gorky Park, Polar Star, Nightwing (a horror novel set in Hopi country), Red Square, & Stallion Gate (set in NM during the Manhattan Project)
SMITH, PATRICIA CLARK - retired UNM professor, short story author & author of the poetry collection: Changing Your Story. She edited Studies in American Indian Literature: Critical Essays & Course Designs & co-edited Bedford Anthology of World Literature. She is also included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 235+, Song of the Turtle: American Indian Literature, 1974-1994 & Tierra: Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico. Her children’s books include Weetamoo, Chief of the Pocassets, a novel about the woman leader who met with the English colonists at Plymouth Colony; As Long As the Rivers Flow: the Stories of Nine Native Americans, co-authored with Paula Gunn Allen, & with MICHAEL B. RUNNINGWOLF, On the Trail of Elder Brother: Glous'gap Stories of the Micmac Indians
SMITH, ROBERT F. - Albuquerque author of Organic
Gardening in the West, which
gives clear & detailed instructions for gardening organically in a
semi-arid climate. After receiving his
master's degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley, the
author moved with his wife & two sons to a ranch near San Geronimo in
northern NM. After building a house, he
devoted himself for several years to growing vegetables & raising goats. He
then became an instructor at NM Highlands University in Las Vegas. After
retiring from teaching, Smith moved to Albuquerque, where he now teaches computer
skills to seniors, maintains a web page, & keeps a backyard vegetable patch
SMITH, TOBY - Albuquerque Journal sports columnist & author of among other books, Dateline New Mexico, Little Gray Men: Roswell & the Rise of a Popular Culture, New Mexico Odyssey & Stay Awhile, collections of profiles of interesting New Mexicans
SNEAD, RODMAN - UNM geography professor & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
SNIDER, CIRRELDA - La Alameda Press' business manager & illustrator of Near Horizons: a Weekender's Guide to Easy Getaways from Albuquerque
SNODGRASS, MELINDA M. - Albuquerque-raised, now Bernalillo, former executive script consultant for Star Trek, Next Generation; Arabian horse-trainer, former lawyer, author of the romance Santa Fe*, & several science fiction novels, including Circuit*, Circuit Breaker*, Final Circuit*, High Stakes & Runespear. She also edited & is included in Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy & the "mosaic" novel series, Wild Cards
SNYDER, MARYHELEN -
SONKISS, LOIS - Mayan-born Tijeras editor & artist, included in Remembered Earth: an Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature
SOTO, JOSE LUIS - Albuquerque author & editor included in Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers
SOUKUP, MARTHA - former Albuquerque, now San Francisco, Nebula Award-winning science fiction author who is included in Nebula Awards 26, Nebula Awards 30, A Nightmare’s Dozen, A Starfarer’s Dozen, Starlight 2, Things Invisible to See: Gay and Lesbian Tales of Magic Realism & Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy
SOWERS, FRANK - Albuquerque North Valley soldier & author of his wartime memoirs: War Is Not Our Destiny. He is married to MIRIAM
SOWERS, MIRIAM - Albuquerque North Valley poet, painter, gallery owner & author of Suns of Man
SPANGLER, VEDA C. - Mountainair retired Civil Service secretary & poet who is included in Sandscript p. 63 & Turquoise Land
SPENCER, BRENNA - author of Kids First in New Mexico, which contains names & addresses of places of interest to children, most located in Albuquerque. It includes brief descriptions of activities or opportunities offered for most
SPENCER, GWYNNE - former Albuquerque, now Arizona, former bookseller & author of New Mexico Authors, Storytellers, and Illustrators Directory, Places to Go With Children In the Southwest & What's Cooking in Children's Literature
SPICCI, JOAN - Albuquerque mathematician, educator, writer, wife of FRED SABERHAGEN, & novelist of Beyond the Limit: the Dream of Sofya Kovalevskaya, a biographical romance novel about the famous Russian mathematician
SPIDLE, JAKE W., JR. - UNM professor of modern European history & the history of medicine, author of Doctors of Medicine in New Mexico: a History of Health and Medical Practice, 1886-1986, Lovelace Medical Center: Pioneer in American Health Care, & he is included in Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico History
SPITLER, LORING - Albuquerque retired technical author & author of Little Churches of the Valley*
SPRINGFIELD, MICHAEL - Rio Rancho City planner & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
ST. CLAIR, GILBERT K. - director of the Institute for Public Policy at UNM & co-author of New Mexico Government
STAATS, TODD -
STAMM, ROY ALLEN - businessman & poet who is included in New Mexico In Verse & who wrote For Me, the Sun: the
Autobiography of Roy A. Stamm, an Early
STANLEY, F. (FRANCIS) - priest & author of more than 130 histories of NM towns & people, including The Belen, New Mexico Story, The Bernalillo, New Mexico Story, The Duke City: the Story of Albuquerque, New Mexico, 1706-1956, & The Zia, New Mexico Story
STANLEY, WILLIAM - UNM assistant professor of political science & author of Protection Racket States, Elite Politics, Military Extortion and Civil War In El Salvador*
STAPLETON,
ERNEST S. - a professor in
the College of Education at UNM, he had a long & distinguished tenure as a
public school administrator & is co-author with JOHN B. MONDRAGÓN, of Public Education in New Mexico, which won the Earl Nunn Memorial Friend of
Education Award
STARR, SUSANNA - Albuquerque speaker, artist, writer &
entrepreneur, who holds a degree in philosophy from Stony Brook State
University of New York. She has lived in Northern New Mexico for thirty
years. She is the mother of Mirabai Starr & is the author of Fifty
and Beyond: New Beginnings in Health and Well-Being*
STEELE, THOMAS J. -
respected Albuquerque priest, artist, & author on Hispanic religious art
& history, including The Alabados of New Mexico*, New Mexican
Spanish Religious Oratory, Penitente Self-Government: Brotherhoods &
Councils, The Regis Santos: Thirty Years of Collecting, Santos
and Saints: the Religious Folk Art of Hispanic New Mexico & co-editor
of Seeds of Struggle/ Harvest of Faith. He is also included in Fray
Angelico Chavez: Poet, Priest, & Artist. He’s also the co-author with THOMAS
L. LUCERO of Religious
Architecture in Hispanic New Mexico*.
He was the translator & annotator of Holy Week In Tomé; a
New Mexico Passion Play, which was preserved by Fred Landavazo, Edwin Berry
& Juan Estevan Zamora. The Tomé
Passion Play had been passed along orally from generation to generation for
nearly 200 years. The same drama that FRAY FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
mentioned in 1776 was still being performed in 1947 when it was
filmed by a local resident. It was then that it was realized that the drama
should be preserved in a more permanent form.
STEEN, CHARLIE R. - UNM history professor & co-author of Making Sense of the Episcopal Church* & Pajarito Plateau: a Bibliography
STEIN, MARJORIE SHAPIRO - Albuquerque instructor at UNM’s Continuing Education & poet who is included in Sandscript p. 26 & Turquoise Land
STEINBACH, TOM - Albuquerque resident, former industrial & graphics designer from Chicago, & author with his children Tom, Jr. & Peter, of Mimbres Classic Mysteries: Reconstructing a Lost Culture Through Its Pottery
STEINER, STAN - former UNM professor, Santa Fe historian, western history expert & author of, among others, Dark and Dashing Horsemen, The New Indians, Ranchers: a Book of Generations, La Raza: the Mexican Americans, Tiguas & The Waning of the West
STEINSIEK, SABRA BROWN - Albuquerque information specialist at the UNM Law Library &
contemporary romance author of Timing Is Everything, starring Albuquerque
Herald reporter Laura Collins & its sequels, When That Time Comes
& 'Til the End of Time
STELLING, MAXINE - author of Social Graces, Comfortable Places : Something Special
Will Not Be Forgotten, the recollections of Opal Hill, a former Harvey Girl
STELZNER, PATRICIA - Albuquerque attorney representing the legal rights of senior citizens,
co-author of New Mexico: a New Guide to the Colorful State & Touring
New Mexico
STEPHENS, REED - Corrales' author of a mystery: The Man
Who Risked His Partner, a private eye novel, set in Albuquerque. Sequels
are The Man Who Fought Alone & The Man Who Killed His Brother,
which are filed in Fiction, under the author's real name, STEPHEN R. DONALDSON
STEVENS, DOMINIQUE E. - archaeologist who received her M.A. in anthropology from ENMU, & who co-authored Sandia Cave: a Study in Controversy
STEWART, JIM - member of the Albuquerque team who competed in the National Poetry Slam Championships, a founding member of the Albuquerque Poetry Ensemble/Experiment, & the founding co-editor of Saint Elizabeth Street magazine. He’s included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 480+
STILLMAN, DEANNE - Los Angeles journalist who attended UNM & author of Twentynine Palms: a True Story of Murder, Marines, and the Mojave & co-author of Woodstock Census: the Nationwide Survey of the Sixties Generation
STOCK, MELISSA T. - Albuquerque managing editor of the Chile Pepper magazine & co-author of Hot and Spicy Chili, Hot and Spicy Latin Dishes & Sweet Heat: Spicy Desserts (& More) for Chile Lovers. She co-authored Cody Coyote Cooks! & Silly Celebrations: Activities for the Strangest Holidays You’ve Never Heard of
STONE, JUSTIN F. - Albuquerque former T'ai chi ch'uan instructor & lecturer
on East Asian philosophies at UNM, author
& inventor of T’ai Chi Chih, a set of movements focused on the
development of energy, called Chi
(not a martial art), & editor of Bushido: the Way of the Samurai
STONE, KAREN G. - Albuquerque Journal columnist with multiple sclerosis, & author of Awakening to Disability, Nothing About Us Without Us
STONE, WILLIAM - Albuquerque photographer of New Mexico Then
& Now: Contemporary Rephotography
STOPPER, AVI - Albuquerque native, who attended
Albuquerque Academy, graduated from Wesleyan University, now assistant soccer
coach at the University of Chicago & author of Make the Team*
STRANGE, JOHNNA -
STRICKLAND, CHARLENE - Albuquerque horse-riding expert, young adult librarian, magazine columnist, author of Competing in Western Shows & Events, Show Grooming: the Look of a Winner & Western Riding
STRIEGEL, JANA - Albuquerque dancer, choreographer, former owner of Jana's Academy of Music & Dance & author of a children's novel about an aspiring young Albuquerque ballerina, struck by rheumatoid arthritis, in Homeroom Exercise
STUART, DAVID E. - Albuquerque consulting anthropologist, UNM Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, professor of anthropology emeritus at UNM & author of Anasazi America: Seventeen Centuries on the Road from Center Place, Glimpses of the Ancient Southwest, Guaymas Chronicles: La Mandadera, (his memoirs), Magic of Bandelier, Prehistoric New Mexico: Background for Survey & Zone of Tolerance* (a kind of sequel to his memoirs, a glimpse of a long-gone & little-known slice of Mexican life, about the "working girls" in the 1970s Guaymas nightclub district). He is also included in New Mexico in Maps & Spirit That Wants Me.
STUART, GARY L. - Gallup-born, Placitas attorney, professor of law, & author of Miranda:
the Story of America's Right to Remain Silent* & The Gallup 14,
a novel about the 1935 miner’s strike in Gallup
STUEVER, MARY - co-editor of Field Guide to the Sandiia Mountains, with ROBERT JULYAN
SUINA, JOSEPH - Cochiti Pueblo Tribal Council member, UNM associate education professor who is included in Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt: Identity, Meaning, & Renewal in the Pueblo World & Multicultural Southwest: a Reader
SUTTON, MAYA MAGEE - UNM professor of Celtic Studies & author of Druid Magic: the Practice of Celtic Wisdom
SWALLOW, ALAN - former UNM professor, author, editor & poet who is included in Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
SWANN, ALEXANDRA - Albuquerquean who became the youngest student ever to graduate from BYU, at age 15, after being homeschooled with her 9 brothers & sisters, & author of No Regrets
SWARC, SANDY - East Mountain Telegraph journalist, author of Cooking With Chile Wine* & Real New Mexico Chile: an Insider’s Guide to Cooking With Chile
SWEARINGEN,
ROBERT - Indiana-born poet
who received a B.A. in English from Western New Mexico University in 1973.
After jobs as a steel worker, bartender, taxicab driver, teacher, & social
worker, he took to the road & has been traveling on it ever since. A
wanderer by nature, Bob has lived on & off the streets of Albuquerque, for
the past seventeen years. Street Milk* is his first book of poetry.
SWIFT, VIRGINIA - Albuquerque novelist of Brown-Eyed Girl, a funny, wild, mystery/ romance set in Laramie, Wyoming & its sequels, Bad Company & Bye, Bye, Love. She is also a UNM professor & writes nonfiction under the name, VIRGINIA SCHARFF
SYMMES-WESTBROOK, SUSAN - co-author of Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico: a Guide to its
History & Architecture
SZABO, JOYCE M. - professor in UNM's Art & Art History Department & author of Howling Wolf and the History of Ledger Art
SZASZ, FERENC MORTON - UNM professor of social & cultural history & author or editor of American West in 2000: Essays in Honor of Gerald D. Nash, The Atomic West, The Day the Sun Rose Twice: the Story of the Trinity Site Nuclear Explosion, July 16, 1945, Great Mysteries of the West, The Protestant Clergy in the Great Plains and Mountain West, Religion in Modern New Mexico & Religion in the Modern American West. He is also included in New Mexican Lives: Profiles & Historical Stories
SZASZ, MARGARET CONNELL - UNM professor of history & author of several titles including First Congregational Church of Albuquerque, New Mexico: a Centennial History, 1880-1980
TAICHERT, PARI NOSKIN - Albuquerque award-winning freelance journalist, public relations consultant & novelist of The Clovis Incident: a Mystery, set in Albuquerque & Clovis. Her second mystery in the Sasha Solomon series, is The Bélen Hitch
TAINTER, JOSEPH A. - Albuquerque archaeologist with the US Forest Service, co-editor of Evolving Complexity & Environmental Risk in the Prehistoric Southwest: Proceedings of the Workshop "Resource Stress, Economic Uncertainty, and Human Response in the Prehistoric Southwest", author of The Collapse of Complex Societies & Cultural Resources Overview Mt. Taylor Area, New Mexico & contributor to Secrets of a City: Papers on Albuquerque Area Archaeology in Honor of Richard A. Bice, Themes In Southwest Prehistory & Understanding Complexity in the Prehistoric Southwest
TALIA, IRENE - Albuquerque novelist of the family saga, Faith and Obedience*
TAPAHONSO, LUCI - Shiprock-born & raised, Albuquerque Navajo poet, professor at the
University of Arizona, essayist, playwright & short story author of Blue
Horses Rush In, Saanii Dahataa, The Women Are Singing, Seasonal
Woman; & who is included in Getting Over the Color Green:
Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest, Here First, In
Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 249+, Multicultural
Southwest: a Reader, Reinventing the Enemy’s Language, Remembered
Earth, Returning the Gift, Sisters of the Earth, p. 37+, Songs
From This Earth On Turtle’s Back, Unsettling America & Walking
the Twilight: Women Writers of the Southwest. Her children’s books include Navajo ABC: a
Dine Alphabet Book & the beautiful picture book, Songs of Shiprock Fair
TARBESCU, EDITH - Placitas author of Annushka's Voyage, a picture book about two
Russian sisters who leave their Grandmother to join their father in
TASCHEK, KAREN -
Albuquerque novelist writing under the name KAREN BENTLEY, has written 12 books on horses in the best-selling Thoroughbred series on racehorses, 2
romances, & a children's book on car racing
TATUM, CHARLES - former Albuquerque resident, chair of the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Arizona, author of Chicano Literature, contributor to Paso Por Aqui & editor of the Journal of Latin American Popular Culture
TAYLOR, ANNE - Corrales UNM professor of Architecture
& Planning, co-director of the Institute for Environmental Education,
environmental designer, art educator & author of Southwestern
Ornamentation & Design: the Architecture of John Gaw Meem
TAYLOR, CATHERINE -
TAYLOR, G. JEFFREY -
TAYLOR, JOHN M. - Sandia
National Laboratory nuclear engineer, who manages the Nonproliferation
Initiatives Department, Peralta author of the definitive study of Bloody
Valverde: a Civil War Battle on the Rio Grande, & Dejad a Los Ninos, a new look at the history of the
east bank of the Rio Grande from Isleta to Tomé with a focus on the Parish of
Our Lady of Guadalupe in Peralta. He’s
the co-author of The Battle of Glorieta Pass & contributor to Heroes
of the Rio Abajo: Stories of the Brave Men and Women in Valencia County History.
TEAGUE, JONATHAN M. - co-author of The Old House Workbook: Rehabilitation Guidelines for
Albuquerque
TEMPLETON, KAREN - A
transplanted Easterner who called NYC "home"
for more than a decade, now lives in
TENORIO, FRANCISCA HERRERA - Albuquerque author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan & Southwest Tales: a Contemporary Collection
TESSLER, MARGARET - Houston-born, former elementary school teacher, humor writer for the Daily Lobo, she & her husband spent 8 years traveling the US in an RV, now Albuquerque author of the mysteries Class Disunion & Tangled Webs (both set in Texas) & founding member of an Albuquerque writing group, Las Maravillosas
THACKER, BARB - Rio Rancho author of the autobiographical travel series: How Can I Be Lost When I Don’t Know Where I’m Going?, Still Going: Blissfully Lost in the Baja: Travels with Ink & Since I Don't Know Where I'm Going, I'm Never Lost
THIEL, DIANE - UNM English Department's Creative Writing Program professor, author
of Writing Your Rhythm* & winner of the 13th annual Nicholas Roerich
Poetry Prize for EchoLocations
THOMAS, MICHAEL - Raton-born, Alamogordo-raised anthropologist, UNM professor, Socorro rancher & novelist of Crosswinds, a contemporary novel about a young man’s coming of age, in southeastern NM & Albuquerque; Ostrich, a screwball romantic comedy set on a Nevada ranch & Hat Dance, a funny “buddy” novel set in the mountains of central Mexico. He is also included in Tierra: Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico
THOMAS, SHELLEY MOORE - former Albuquerque, now California elementary school teacher & author of the picture books: Good Night, Good Knight, Putting the World to Sleep & Somewhere Today: a Book of Peace
THOMPSON, EILEEN - Los Alamos Lab radio technician, later Albuquerque children’s author
of the NM stories: The Blue-Stone Mystery*, The Golden Coyote, a
Pueblo Indian story, about a lonely young man who attempts to run away with his
pet coyote pup, The Spanish Deed Mystery* & White Falcon; an
Indian Boy in Early America*, a Zuni story
THOMPSON, GEORGE J. -
THOMPSON, PHYLLIS HOGE - after teaching for 20 years at the University of Hawaii, she retired to Albuquerque; poet of Artichoke and Other Poems*, Each to Her Post*, & Ghosts of Who We Were*. She is also included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 216+, The Spirit That Wants Me & Tarasque I. She's also written her memoirs, The Painted Clock, Memoirs of a New Mexico Ghost Town Bride
THOMPSON, SALLY-ALICE - Albuquerque author of Central Asia Fantasia: Transitions in Turkmenistan: a Spiritual Journey, 1989-1999, about one of Albuquerque’s sister-cities, after the fall of the Soviet Union, by one of the 1st Americans to visit
THORNBURGH, LUELLA - author of
the 1960’s The Easy Art of Gardening in the
THORNHILL, RANDY - Regents’ Professor & Professor of Biology at UNM & co-author of Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion
THORP, NATHAN HOWARD ("COWBOY" JACK) - Alameda cattleman, NM Federal Writers' Project collector of oral histories: Songs of the Cowboys, author of his memoirs: Along the Rio Grande: Cowboy Jack Thorp’s New Mexico & poet who is included in Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950
THORSON, CONNIE CAPERS - Albuquerque librarian, head of Acquisitions for UNM’s Zimmerman Library, editor of Million Stars: the Millionth Acquisition for the UNM General Library & she is included in Labor in New Mexico
THORSON, JAMES L. - UNM English department professor & co-editor of Leslie Marmon Silko: a Collection of Critical Essays
THURLO, AIMÉE & DAVID - Corrales novelists of New Mexican Native American
romantic suspense novels: Bad Medicine, Blackening Song, Changing
Woman, Death Walker, Enemy Way, Red Mesa, Shooting
Chant, Tracking Bear, Wind Spirit & White Thunder
(a series with Ella Clah, a Navajo FBI agent, later a special investigator with
the Navajo Police); Plant Them Deep (a “cozy” mystery with Rose Detea, a
Navajo herbalist & mother of Ella Clah); Second Shadow (with Tewa
architect, Irene Pobikan); Bad Faith & Thief in Retreat: a Sister
Agatha Mystery (set in a Bernalillo monastery); Timewalker*, a
Navajo romance; & Second Sunrise, Blood Retribution & Pale Death (a series featuring Lee
Nez, a vampire hero & Navajo policeman in fast-paced, action-filled stories
of supernatural suspense). They also
wrote a young adult mystery: The Spirit Line. David Thurlo was raised in Shiprock &
taught for 25 years at Taylor Middle School, in Albuquerque. Aimée
was born in Havana, Cuba
TIBBETS, JOSEPH M. - Albuquerque artist, coordinator of the Southwest Solaradobe School
& author of Earthbuilders’ Encyclopedia
TICE, ARDEN - Albuquerque essayist & poet since the 1960s when she came to Santa Fe. She is the co-author with NICHOLS SANDS, of In Time to Tango, a collection of their poetry. They met in Albuquerque, when they started a Veterans' writing group
TIKKUN, KUAN - Albuquerque communications teacher, industrial management trainer, editor, lyricist, essayist & poet who is included in Southwest Potpourri*
TILLER, VERONICA E. VELARDE - Albuquerque Jicarilla Apache author of Discover Indian Reservations USA, Jicarilla Apache Tribe: a History & Tiller’s Guide to Indian Country
TIMONER, JENNIFER - Buffalo, NY-born & raised, now Albuquerque poet &
award-winning scholar, who’s included in In Company: an Anthology of New
Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 498+
TIREMAN, L. S. (LOYD S.) - 1930s UNM professor of education, founder of
the San José Training School & the Nambé school; & author of several
children’s books, all adapted by Evelyn Yrisarri & illustrated by Ralph
Douglass: Baby Jack & Jumping Jack Rabbit, Big Fat, Cocky,
Dumbee, Hop-a-Long, Quills: Stories & 3 Toes
TITUS, FRANK BETHEL - author of Ground Water in the Sandia & Northern Manzano Mountains, New Mexico
TOMLISON, CELIA RUÍZ - Albuquerque president & CEO of Rhombus Professional Associates,
one of NM's 1st registered woman professional engineers, & author of
her autobiography, Don't Ever Tell Me You Can't
TOOMEY, DON - a retired
geologist/ paleontologist &
professor of earth sciences, living in
Placitas, a staff writer for the award-winning Hispanic arts quarterly, Tradición
Revista & author of The
Spell of California's Spanish Colonial Missions: a Guidebook*
TORKELSON, LAYNE VICKERS see MARION MARGERY LAYNE
TORRES, ELISEO "CHEO" - the Vice
President of Student Affairs at UNM, who grew up with firsthand knowledge of
Mexican folk healing, curanderismo. As an adult, he wanted to learn more, &
shares his journey in Curandero: a Life in Mexican Folk Healing. He’s also the author of Green Medicine:
Traditional Mexican-American Herbal Remedies & Folk Healer: the
Mexican-American Tradition of Curanderismo.
He also contributed to A
People's Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living.
He’s also the recipient of the Martin de la Cruz Medal, awarded to those
who’ve contributed to the advancement of traditional & folk medicine, by
the Academia Mexicana de Medicina Tradicional.
TORRES-METZGAR, JOSEPH
- Albuquerque-born, now San Francisco resiident, former UNM professor of history
& author of the acclaimed novel, Below the Summit
TORREZ, JULIETTE -
TORREZ, ROBERT J. - the New Mexican State Historian, Albuquerque author of Crime and
Punishment In Spanish Colonial New Mexico, La Mano Negra: the
"Black Hand" and Beginnings of Violent Protest to Land Loss in
the Tierra Amarilla Grant, New Mexico’s Spanish and Mexican Archives: a
History, Southern Ute Agency at Abiquiu and Tierra Amarilla, New
Mexico, Ufos Over Galisteo & Other Stories of New Mexico's History,
Worthy the Pen and Brush of Poet and Painter: a Chicano Colony in
Northern New Mexico; some of his memories of growing up can be found in A
New Mexico Scrapbook. He’s also
included in the NM issue of Cobblestone
Magazine: American History for Kids
TOVAR, LUIS -
TOYA, DEBRA HAALAND - Laguna/Jemez Pueblo-born, now Albuquerque author who is included in Reinventing the Enemy’s Language
TRAFTON, CLINT - Albuquerque-raised engineer, psychologist, Jemez Mountains award-winning author of You Can’t Push a Rope, a touching family story set against the courthouse raid in Tierra Amarilla
TRAS, JAN - Albuquerque private-practice counselor & co-author of The Joy of Imperfection: the Optimist’s Guide to Being Ordinary
TRENT, CORA GAIL GUNN - Sandia Park author of Absence of Grief: Surviving and Thriving in
a Bipolar World*, written after her husband Harry died of cancer in March
2002, slightly more than two years after he & Cora retired from Texas &
moved to NM. "He had always wanted
to live in the mountains," she says. "It was the most content he had
ever been - even after he was diagnosed with cancer. The sicker he got, the
more thankful he was for his blessings."
TREVER, JOHN - Albuquerque Journal's editorial cartoonist & author of Trever Gallery: a Public Hanging
TRINKAUS, ERIK - UNM anthropology professor & author of Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind
TRITICA, JOHN - Albuquerque High School teacher of gifted
students, essayist, translator, author & poet of How Rain Records Its
Alphabet & who’s included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico
Poets After 1960 p. 448+
TROYCE, RAQUEL - Guadalajara-born, Corrales author of Seducción,
Amor y Mentiras
TRUE, DAN - Albuquerque naturalist, former TV weatherman, & author of A Family of Eagles, Flying Free & Hummingbirds of North America
TRYK, SHEILA - NM-based, former Albuquerque Tribune staff writer, editor, travel writer, author of cookbooks, magazine articles & Santa Fe Indian Market: Showcase of Native American Art
TUCKER, EDWIN A. - Gila, Grants & Albuquerque 32-year Forest Service ranger, supervisor, analyst, regional historian & author of Men Who Matched the Mountains: the Forest Service in the Southwest
TULENKO, PAUL - Albuquerque director of TVI's Business Development Center & author of The Ultimate Business Resource Guide
TURNER, PAULINE H. - UNM professor, parenting expert, & co-author of Children and Their Families in New Mexico
TURRIETTA, CECILE - Albuquerque counselor, producer of a video on SABINE ULIBARRI & author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
TUTTLE, HOWARD N. - Albuquerque Chair of the Philosophy Department at UNM & author of Fire Night: a Story of Pompeii
TWINEM, NEECY - Cedar Crest award-winning author &
illustrator of Aye-Ayes, Bears, and Condors: an ABC of Endangered Animals
and Their Babies & E is for
Enchantment: a New Mexico Alphabet
TYDEMAN, WILLIAM E. - former Albuquerquean, now State Archivist at the Idaho State Historical Society, editor of The Pueblo Revival Architecture of John Gaw Meem; he is also included in Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico History
ULIBARRÍ, SABINE R. - Albuquerque & Tierra Amarilla bilingual poet, UNM Professor Emeritus of Spanish, author of, among others, Al Cielo Se Sube a Pie, The Best of Sabine R. Ulibarrí, Mayhem Was Our Business, Primeros Encuentros, Tierra Amarilla; & his memoirs include: Mayhem Was Our Business/ Memorias de un Veterano & My Grandma Smoked Cigars and Other Stories of Tierra Amarilla. He edited, collected & translated La Fragua Sin Fuego. He is also included in Ceremony of Brotherhood, Flow of the River/Corre el Río, Short Fiction by Hispanic Writers of the United States & Tierra: Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico
Unofficial
Guide to the
UNSER, BOBBY - Albuquerque racecar driver, three-time Indianapolis 500 winner, & author of Winners are Driven: a Champion's Guide to Success in Business & Life
UYEMOTO, HOLLY - Japanese-American novelist who lives in Albuquerque, part-time, & is the novelist of Go
VALDES-RODRIGUEZ, ALISA - Albuquerque native, former features editor of the Albuquerque
Tribune, & novelist of Dirty Girls Social Club, the story of six
Latina friends, set in Boston. Her
second novel, Playing With Boys is about three
Latinas who are trying to break into
VALLEJOS BARTLETT, CATHERINE - Albuquerque poet included in Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers
VAN ALST, RANDELL S. -
VAN ARSDALL, ANNE - Albuquerque editor & translator of Medieval Herbal Remedies: the Old English Herbarium & Anglo-Saxon Medicine. It was illustrated by her son, ROBBY POORE
VAN EPEREN, JEANNINE D. - Albuquerque private pilot, former banker & novelist of the 1950's banking romance, Albuquerque, the Chicago symphonic romance, Hearts in 3/4 Time & Love & All That Jazz
VAN GIESON, JUDITH -
VAN PELT, ELIZABETH COHEN - Port Crane, NY reporter, who grew up in
Albuquerque & the author of her life caring for both her infant daughter
& her father, who is afflicted with Alzheimer's: The House on
Beartown Road: a Memoir of Learning & Forgetting. See
also ELIZABETH COHEN
VAN VALEN, JULIE - Belen co-chair of the Harvey House Museum
& contributor to Heroes of the Rio Abajo: Stories of the Brave Men and
Women in Valencia County History
VANCE, WILLIAM E. - former Albuquerque western novelist of Drifter's Gold, set in
Santa Fe
VANETTEN, TERESA - author of Dead Kachina Man, an intriguing NM mystery. See
also TERESA PIJOAN
VARDEMAN, ROBERT E. - Albuquerque author of more than 75 young adult, science fiction, western & Star Trek novels, UNM alumni & former Sandia Labs scientist who named Bubonicon; most of his novels unfortunately, only in paperback, except the young adult story, Road to the Stars. He is included in An Armory of Swords & also writes westerns under the name, KARL LASSITER
VÁSQUEZ, JANE ATKINS - NM co-editor of Remembering Presbyterian Mission in the Southwest: 25th Anniversary of the Menaul Historical Library
VASSALLO, PAUL - former Dean of Library Services at UNM & editor of The Magic of Words: Rudolfo A. Anaya and His Writings
VAUGHAN, JOHN - Hobbs-born & raised, graphic designer, now
VELARDE, STACEY - Albuquerque-born, Jicarilla Apache author included in Neon Pow-Wow
VÉLEZ, DANIEL ROLL - UNM-educated short story author, included in Cuentos Chicanos (1980 ed.)
VERGARA, GEORGE L. - Albuquerque-born cardiologist & author of Hugh Robinson, Pioneer Aviator
VERGARA, LAUTARO - Albuquerque physician, poet of Aventuras de Don Quijote de la Mancha/ Poesias, Dos Caminos, y Otras Poesias del Suroeste, & short story author who is included in Cuentos Chicanos (1980 ed.), Sandscript p. 2+ & Turquoise Land
VERTIKOFF, ALEXANDER - Tijeras photographer of Greene & Greene: Masterworks & Weird Rooms
VESELY, JAMES M. - Corrales author of the historical novels Seasons of Harvest, Awakening Land & Shadows on the Land, his Corrales Valley Trilogy, which tell the origins & history of Corrales, over seven hundred years
VILLANUEVA, KAREN WILLIAMS - former Canadian, now Albuquerque author of nonfiction short works & poet who is included in This I Believe, edited by James Strecker*
VINEGAR, TOM - pseudonym of ANDREW K. GREGG, photographer for the Albuquerque Tribune, owner of Vinegar
Tom Press (hand-printed books) in Albuquerque & author of Here
Comes Elfego! the Autobiography Of Elfego Baca, A New Mexico Christmas,
Southwestern Arts & Crafts: an Introduction & A Walk Around
Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico
VON AUW, EMILIE - Albuquerque art teacher, businesswoman, painter & poet who is included in Sandscript p. 113 & Turquoise Land
VORHEES, DOROTHY LAWREY - Albuquerque watercolorist & author of Doorways of New Mexico
VUKELICH, DAN - longtime
WAGNER, PAUL - Albuquerque physical chemist who retired
from Los Alamos National Laboratory, B-17 pilot in the 398th Bomb Group, 600th
Squadron during WWII, & the author of The Youngest Crew*.
WAITZKIN, HOWARD - UNM professor & the director of the Division of Community Medicine in the Department of Family & Community Medicine at UNM Health Sciences Center & author of At the Front Lines of Medicine: How the Health Care System Alienates Doctors & Mistreats Patients...& What We Can Do About It & The Second Sickness Contradiction of Capitalist Health Care*
WALKER, SAGE - former Taos, now Albuquerque, emergency room physician, participant in the "mosaic" novel series: Wild Cards, science fiction author of short stories, included in An Armory of Swords & Not of Woman Born; & an Antarctic & Taos virtual reality novel, Whiteout, which won the Locus Award for Best First Novel of 1996
WARNER, SHARON OARD - UNM assistant professor, director of the
creative writing program there, founding director of the Taos Summer Writers’
Conference, editor of The Way We Write Now: Short Stories From
the AIDS Crisis & novelist of Deep in the Heart, set in
WASERMAN, MANFRED - Albuquerque co-editor of & contributor to Health and Disease in the Holy Land*
WATCHEMPINO, LAURA - Albuquerque Acoma Pueblo poet & journalist, who is included in Remembered Earth: an Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature
WEBB, MELODY - author of her memoirs, A Woman in the Great Outdoors: Adventures in the National Park Service, who received her PhD in history from UNM & did historic preservation work in Santa Fe
WEBER, ROBERT J. - Albuquerque psychologist & author of The Created Self: Reinventing Body, Persona, and Spirit
WEIGLE, MARTA - Albuquerque professor of anthropology, English, & American Studies, chair of the Dept. of American Studies at UNM; expert historian & folklorist of Brothers of Light, Brothers of Blood, Hispanic Villages of Northern New Mexico, New Mexicans in Cameo and Camera, Santa Fe and Taos: the Writer’s Era, & Women of New Mexico, among many titles
WEISHAUS, JOEL - Albuquerque poet & author of Deeds and Sufferings of Light*
WEISS, JOSEPH E. - author of Sunbelt Migration & its Effects Upon the Growth & Development of a Southwest Community - Rio Rancho
WELLS, STEVEN G. - co-editor of Albuquerque Country II: New Mexico Geological Society Thirty- Third Annual Field Conference, November 4-6, 1982
WELSOME, EILEEN - former Albuquerque Tribune Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter & author of Plutonium Files: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War
WESTPHALL, VICTOR - former
WHIDDEN, MARY BESS - Albuquerque humorist, columnist, UNM professor & author of the comic collection: Provincial Matters: Essays
WHIDDON, CAROL - Albuquerque editor & freelance author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
WHITE, LESLIE A. - author of The Acoma Indians, The Concept of Cultural Systems: a Key to Understanding Tribes & Nations, The Pueblo of San Felipe, The Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico, The Pueblo of Santo Domingo, New Mexico, The Pueblo of Sia, New Mexico, Zia: the Sun Symbol Pueblo; & editor of Pioneers In American Anthropology: the Bandelier-Morgan Letters, 1873-1883
WHITE, MARY ANN - wife of PETER, & co-editor of Along the Rio Grande: Cowboy Jack Thorp’s New Mexico
WHITE, MARY GERRY - Cedar Crest environmental consultant, editor of Decommissioning, Decontamination, & Environmental Restoration at Contaminated Nuclear Sites* & author of New Mountains to Climb: Sedan Crater, Nevada Test Site*, a compilation of short stories, poems & her illustrations & Shades of Old Chaparral*. She’s a member of the American Nuclear Society & has been a Department of Energy program manager of a center associated with the Uranium Mill Tailings Project.
WHITE, PETER - Albuquerque violin maker, UNM professor of English & American studies, interim dean of undergraduate studies at UNM, husband of MARY ANN, & editor of Along the Rio Grande: Cowboy Jack Thorp’s New Mexico & The Lore of New Mexico. He is also included in Multicultural Southwest: a Reader
WHITE, ROBERT R. - Albuquerque hydrologist, art historian & author of Taos Society of Artists & co-author of Bert Geer Phillips and the Taos Art Colony
WIDDISON, JEROLD G. - City of Albuquerque Transportation Dept., Planning & Programming Division employee, author of New Mexico Then & Now: Contemporary Rephotography, co-author of Archaeological Investigations at Los Esteros Reservoir, The Climate of New Mexico, & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
WIDGER, KATY - Corrales-raised, now, Edgewood fiber artist & author of Color Wheel Fabric Dyeing*
WIDGREN, BOB - founder & owner of Albuquerque’s Los Piños Rods & author who is included in Fly-Fishing in Northern New Mexico
WILDE, DAVID
- author of The Life & Times of Commmander E. C. "Zeke" Cortez,
USNR: Not Just "Scuttlebutt", about the Belen resident; UNM musician, teacher, & author who is
included in The Spirit That Wants Me
WILES, RICHARD S. - author of Rio Rancho, New Mexico: a Record of Progress
WILEY, TOM - former State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Albuquerque Public Schools Superintendent, UNM professor & author of his autobiography, Forty Years in Politics and Education
WILLIAMS, BENJAMIN T. - Albuquerque minister & poet who is included in Turquoise Land
WILLIAMS, JERRY L. - UNM associate geography professor & editor of New Mexico In Maps
WILLIAMS, WALTER JON - former Albuquerque, now Belen, Nebula Award nominated author of novels
of life on the far reaches, including: Crown Jewels, Rock of Ages,
Metropolitan & its sequel, City on Fire; & his NM title, Days
of Atonement. He is also included in Armory of Swords, Good New Stuff:
Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition, Lord of the Fantastic:
Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny, Not of Woman Born, Very Large
Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy, Wild Cards & Worlds
That Weren't
WILLINK, ROSEANN S. - Navajo UNM faculty member & co-author of Weaving a World: Textiles and the Navajo Way of Seeing
WILLIS, JOSEPH S. - El Paso-born, long-time Albuquerque minister, University Pastor at UNM, Albuquerque public schools teacher & counselor, painter, now Arvada, CO Minister Emeritus, adult education teacher & author of Finding Faith in the Face of Doubt: A Guide for Contemporary Seekers*
WILLS, W.H. (WIRT HENRY) - assistant professor of anthropology, director of the archaeology field school at UNM, & author of Early Prehistoric Agriculture in the American Southwest & & contributor to Themes In Southwest Prehistory & Understanding Complexity in the Prehistoric Southwest
WILLSON, HARRY - Albuquerque graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, who served as
missionary-pastor in NM, taught high school for ten years, worked as
mythologist, lecturer, essayist, dream counselor, columnist, playwright,
gardener, beekeeper, bookkeeper, basket maker, owner of Amador Publishers,
essayist, co-editor of Christmas Blues, author of funny & sarcastic
science fiction, including Duke City Tales, Freedom From God*, Souls
& Cells Remember: a Love Story, This’ll Kill Ya: and Other Dangerous
Stories, & A World for the Meek: a Fantasy Novel. He is also
included in The Spirit That Wants Me
WILSON, CHRIS -
WILSON, FRED R. - black Albuquerque sculptor, potter & author of a collection of poetry & photography: Soul Reflections, Heart Expressions: the Art and Poetry of Fred R. Wilson
WILSON, MARY REILLY - pseudonym of MARY MCMULLEN, Albuquerque author of The Gift
Horse* a mystery set in Albuquerque
WINDES, THOMAS C. - Albuquerque archaeologist & author of Investigations at the Pueblo Alto Complex, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, 1975-1979, The Spadefoot Toad Site: Investigations at 29SJ 629 in Marcia's Rincon & the Fajada Gap Pueblo II Community, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, Stone Circles of Chaco Canyon, Northwestern New Mexico; & he contributed to Great Pueblo Architecture of Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma, & Prehistory & History in the Southwest
WINKLESS, NELS - Albuquerque former writer/producer of films, now a manager of technical enterprises, & co-author with IBEN BROWNING of Climate and the Affairs of Men, & author of Robots On Your Doorstep
WISHART, CATHERINE -
WITEMEYER, HUGH - UNM English professor, author of Poetry of Ezra Pound & co-author of Ezra Pound and Senator Bronson Cutting: a Political Correspondence
WITKIN, JOEL-PETER - Albuquerque photographer, author of Gods of Earth and Heaven*, Joel-Peter Witkin: Forty Photographs*; & editor of Harm’s Way: Lust & Madness, Murder & Mayhem* & Masterpieces of Medical Photography*
WIZ KIDS -
WOLFE, BRENDA L., Ph.D. - a clinical psychologist specializing in the treatment of eating disorders, substance abuse, & post-traumatic stress. In addition to her private practice, Dr. Wolfe is involved in research collaborations at UNM. She is the co-author with ROBERT J. MEYERS, of Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, & Threatening
WOLFE, MARY ELLEN - Albuquerque-raised, program director of the Montana Watercourse &
author of Landowner’s Guide to Western Water Rights
WOLINSKY, STEPHEN - Placitas' Gestalt & Reichian therapist & author of The Dark Side of the Inner Child, Hearts On Fire: the Tao of Meditation*, Quantum Consciousness*, The Tao of Chaos: Essence and the Enneagram & Way of the Human: the Way of the Enneagram*
WOOD, REBECCA THEURER - Albuquerque cooking instructor, natural foods proponent & cookbook author of Splendid Grain & The Whole Foods Encyclopedia
WOOD, RICHARD L. - associate professor of sociology at UNM & winner of the 2003 Best Book Award, awarded by the Sociology of Religion section of the American Sociological Association for Faith in Action: Religion, Race, & Democratic Organizing in America
WOODHAM, MARION - author of A History of Presbyterian Hospital, 1908-1976: with an Update Through 1979
WOODHOUSE, CHARLES E. - Albuquerque associate professor emeritus of sociology at UNM & co-author of Santa Fe: a Modern History, 1880-1990
WOODRUFF, JOAN LESLIE - Albuquerque-born Pueblo Indian short story author & novelist of Ghost
in the Rainbow, a crime novel, with NM journalist Myra Whitehawk, who is
drawn into the unfolding drama; & the Native American novel, Neighbors,
also set in NM
WOODS, ALANA
- classically trained in piano & harp,, Alana has a background in the
healing arts, is an artist, & was formerly a Unity Minister. She’s led many
workshops, world-wide & lives in the Sandia Mountains. She’s the author of The Healing Touch of
Music: An Exploration*, a book & teaching CD., with examples of
different approaches taken in western & nonwestern cultures to utilize the
power of sound to bring health & wholeness. The author uses her own
personal journey to discover & harness music for the purposes of healing.
WOOLF, MARION see MARION MARGERY LAYNE
WRIGHT, EDWARD -
WRIGHT, JAY - Albuquerque born & raised, Vermont
poet, playwright, essayist & author of Transfigurations: Collected Poems. He’s also included in In Company: an
Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 169+
WYNNE, LOUIS - Albuquerque clinical psychologist & Four Corners Regional Director of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry & Psychology. He was Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology at UNM School of Medicine, & Clinical Director of the NM State Hospital. He is the novelist of Deliver Us from Evil (set partially in NM) & co-author of Warm Logic: the Art of the Intuitive Lifestyle*
YAZZIE-SHAW, CAROLE - Albuquerque Navajo author, some of whose work can be found in Returning the Gift
YELLOW ROBE, WILLIAM - Albuquerque artistic director of the Wakiknabe Intertribal Theater Co., former instructor at the Institute for American Indian Arts, & playwright of the plays, "The Body Guards"* & "Rez Politics"*. As a poet, he is included in Dancing On the Rim of the World
YODER, WALTER D. - Albuquerque children’s author of The American Pueblo Indian Activity Book, The Big American Southwest Activity Book, The Big New Mexico Activity Book, The Big Spanish Heritage Activity Book & The Santa Fe Trail Activity Book. He also wrote Kaleidoscopes: the Art of Mirrored Magic
YOUNG, M. JANE - Professor of American Studies at UNM & Regents Lecturer, author of Signs From the Ancestors: Zuni Cultural Symbolism and Perceptions of Rock Art, co-editor of Feminist Theory and the Study of Folklore* & Multicultural Southwest: a Reader; & who is included in Astronomy and Ceremony in the Prehistoric Southwest & Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America
YOUNG, ROBERT W. - UNM professor emeritus of the Department of Linguistics, author of Analytical Lexicon of Navajo, Colloquial Navajo: a Dictionary, The Navajo Language: a Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary, Navajo Verb System: an Overview, A Political History of the Navajo Tribe, The Role of the Navajo in the Southwestern Drama, Vocabulary of Colloquial Navaho; & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
YU, PEI-LIN - Albuquerque native, anthropologist & author of Hungry Lightning: Notes of a Woman Archaeologist in Venezuela
YUND, GLORIA SANCHEZ -
ZAMORA, BERNICE - Colorado-born & raised, now Albuquerque Chicana short story author, editor of De Colores, & poet of Releasing Serpents; she is also included in Chicano Authors: Inquiry By Interview, Daughters of the Fifth Sun, Floricanto Sí, Hispanic-American Writers & Women Singing in the Snow
ZANCANELLA, DON - UNM associate professor of education, winner of the 1996 John Simmons Short Fiction Award, administered by the Iowa Writers Workshop, for Western Electric, a collection of short stories; he is also included in the Prize Stories 1998: the O. Henry Awards
ZEHLER, ANTONIA - Albuquerque children's illustrator & author of Two Fine Ladies Have a Tiff, a beginning reader about friendship
ZEILIK, MICHAEL - UNM professor, author of Astronomy: the Evolving Universe, who is included in Astronomy and Ceremony in the Prehistoric Southwest & New Light on Chaco Canyon, & poet included in Sandscript p. 90
ZIMMERMAN, JAN - president of the Sandia Consulting Group & author of Doing Business with the Government Using EDI: a Guide for Small Businesses*, Marketing on the Internet & co-author of Mainstreaming Sustainable Architecture: Casa De Paja: a Demonstration
ZOLLINGER, NORMAN - popular Albuquerque historical & western novelist, two-time winner of the Golden Spur Award & 1999 winner of the Owen Wister Award for lifetime contributions to Western Letters: Chapultepec, Corey Lane (a NM western), Lautrec (a mystery set in contemporary Albuquerque), Meridian: a Novel of Kit Carson’s West, Not of War Only (a western set in NM), Passage to Quivira, Rage in Chupadera* (a NM western), & Riders to Cibola, among others. His posthumously published novel, The Road to Santa Fe, is a contemporary political novel.
ZORETICH, FRANK - Albuquerque Journal staff writer & author of Cheap Thrills Adventure Club, New Mexico: 55 Stops on the Road to Enchantment & Cheap Thrills 2
ZUGGER, FATHER CHRIS - Albuquerque pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Rite Catholic Church, who wrote The Forgotten: Catholics of the Soviet Empire From Lenin Through Stalin
With Thanks to my friends at the Albuquerque/Bernalillo
County Library System
© Suzy Sultemeier, 1983-2005
