NEW MEXICAN AUTHORS: R - Z
8/22/2005
These
are authors who either live or have lived in
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RACITI,
JAMES - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
native who spent more than 25 years in Europe as an educator, now Santa Fe
author of Pulling No Ponchos: an
Irreverent History of Santa Fe, two books of poetry, Charles* & Dabs
of Myself* & has written & produced 2 plays, "The Song of
Roland*" & "Invitation at Dawn: Ernest Hemingway*". His
novels include Au Revoir a la France* & Giacomo*
RACZEK, LINDA THERESA -
Albuquerque-raised, now
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. For more information, please see the NM Index.
RAE, COLLEEN MARIAH - founding editor of the Santa Fe Literary Review & author of Movies in the Mind: How to Build a Short Story & Perchance to Dream*
RAEFF, ANNE -
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
RAEL,
JUAN BAUTISTA - professor emeritus of Spanish at Stanford, & an
expert on Spanish folk tales, born in Arroyo Hondo & author of An
Annotated Bibliography of Spanish Folklore in New Mexico and Southern Colorado,
Cuentos Españoles de Colorado y Nuevo Méjico = Spanish Tales from Colorado
and New Mexico & Cuentos: Tales from the
Hispanic Southwest: based on Stories Originally Collected by Juan B. Rael
RAEL, ROBERTA M. - Questa activist & author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
RAFAELA, JUDITH -
RAINBOW EAGLE - Eagle Nest Choctaw author of Universal Peace Shield of Truths: Ancient American Indian Peace Shield Teachings*
RAIZIZUN, MAY M. - Arroyo
Hondo-born, now
RAKOCY, BILL - former chair of the Division of Fine Arts at the Artesia College, painter, curator at the El Paso Museum of Art & author of several excellent books, including Ghosts of Kingston, Hillsboro, N. Mex., Images - Paso del Norte, & Villa Raids Columbus, N. Mex.
RAM DASS (BABA) - former
Albuquerque professor, yogi with San Cristobal's Lama
Foundation & author of Compassion In Action: Setting out on the Path of
Service, How Can I Help?: Stories and Reflections on Service, Remember,
Now Be Here, Now Here Be*, Paths to God: Living the Bhagavad
Gita & Still Here: Embracing Aging,
Changing & Dying. For more information, please see the NM Index.
RAMO, ROBERTA COOPER -
RANCK,
KATHERINE QUINTANA - Santa Fe-born, now California child development
specialist, later director of child development programs, who also worked as a
classroom teacher & novelist of Portrait of Dona Elena*, set in
Nambé
RANDALL, KENNETH A. - NM author of Only the Echoes: the Life of Howard Bass Cushing
RANDALL MARGARET -
Albuquerque controversial feminist & poet 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. For more information, see the NM Index.
RANDLE, KEVIN D. - Cedar Rapids, Iowa US Air Force Reserve Captain, nonfiction author of among others, Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell & UFO Crash at Roswell; & novelist of several titles, including Operation Roswell, about the UFO crash at Corona & Signals, about our 1st contact with extraterrestrials, set partially in the Roswell area. For further information, please see the NM Index.
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. For more information, please see the NM Index.
RANNEY, EDWARD - winner of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fulbright & National Endowment for the Arts; photographer of Monuments of the Incas & who is included in Essential Landscape: the New Mexico Photographic Survey
RANSOM, W.M. - Arapaho author who is included in Earth Power Coming
RANSON, NANCY RICHEY -
RAPPAPORT, JOSH - Santa Fe playwright, professional tutor, award-winning public school teacher, journalist & author of the Algebra Survival Guide: a Conversational Guide for the Thoroughly Befuddled & poet who is included in Another Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico. For more information, please see the NM Index.
RASK, DAN - NM English teacher, carpenter, jeweler, artist & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
RATKEVICH, RONALD PAUL -
former Albuquerque Curator of Paleontology for the Center for Anthropological
Studies, now,
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*. For more information, please see the NM Index.
RAYES, MITCH -
formerly from
RÉ, PAUL -
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. For more information, see the NM Index.
REBORD,
BERNICE ANN - author of A Social History of
RECK, ROBERT -
REDMOND, SHIRLEY RAYE -
Los Alamos romantic suspense novelist of Stone of the Sun &
award-winning nonfiction children’s author of Lewis & Clark: a Prairie
Dog for the President, Patriots in Petticoats: Heroines of the American
Revolution, Pigeon Hero!, & Tentacles!: Tales of the Giant
Squid. She’s also taught writing
& literature classes at UNM- Los Alamos. For further information, please see
the NM Index
REED, EVELYN DAHL - collector of Coyote Tales From the Indian Pueblos. She is also included in The Serpent’s Tongue & author of the children’s book, The Misadventures of Coyote: Indian Tales from the Pueblos
REED, STELLA - Santa Fe leader of poetry workshops in the schools, winner of a Recursos Southwest Literary Center award, & poet who is included in The Practice of Peace, Written With a Spoon: a Poet’s Cookbook & XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience
REES, THOMAS D. - part-time Santa Fe resident, plastic surgeon, a founder of the Flying Doctors Service of Africa & author of Daktari: a Surgeon's Adventures With the Flying Doctors of Africa* & More Than Just a Pretty Face: How Cosmetic Surgery Can Improve Your Looks & Your Life. For more information, please see the NM Index.
REEVE, AGNESA
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. For more information, see the NM Index.
REEVES, FAYE COUCH -
REGENSBERG, AL - a native New Mexican, former Marine, senior archivist at the NM State
Records Center & Archives in Santa Fe &
contributor to New Mexico:
Celebrating 400 Years of History (a single issue of Cobblestone:
American History for Kids, May, 1998).
He also abstracted
REICHARD, GLADYS AMANDA - NM anthropologist & author of Navaho Religion: a Study of Symbolism, Navajo Medicine Man: Sandpaintings, Navajo Shepherd and Weaver, & Spider Woman: a Story of Navajo Weavers and Chanters. For more information, see the NM Index.
REID, ROBERT - former UNM
professor of creative nonfiction & nature writing, former mountaineering
leader for the Sierra Club, essayist, & author of
REIDER,
ROB - Santa Fe CPA, the President
& founder of Reider Associates, a management
& organizational consulting firm, seminar/ workshop provider, author of
four professional management books & novelist of Road to Oblivion: the
Footpath Back Home* about a man who becomes a corporate vice-president
through hard work & insensitivity to others. He had been responsible for
downsizing thousands of employees based on his work principle "just compensation
for results produced" - now he has been let go fot
the very same reason. Alone with his shame, he leaves his office for the last
time, spending some time in self-pity & waitng
for the end of his life to come. Instead, he heads on a journey back to his
"roots," rediscovering his wife, family & old friends left behind
in his wake of ambition & self-destruction.
REILLY, HELEN - Albuquerque mother of MARY MCMULLEN & URSULA REILLY CURTISS & author of more than 30 well-researched & well-regarded mysteries, most set in NYC, but 2 are set in the Sandias: The Day She Died* & Follow Me. For more information, please see the NM Index.
REILLY,
MARY - Albuquerque Edgar-winning
author who wrote under the pseudonym, MARY MCMULLEN
REILY, NANCY HOPKINS - Abiquiu biographer of Joseph Imhof: Artist of the Pueblos. For further information, see the NM Index.
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. For more information, please see the NM Index.
RESCIGNA, BRUNO - former Albuquerque, now
REX, HEATHER - UNM maps reference librarian & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
REYES, MITCH -
formerly from
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*. For more information, please see the NM Index.
REYNOLDS, MICHAEL E. -
REYNOLDS, RALPH -
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
REYNOLDS, STEVE -
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
RHODES, EUGENE MANLOVE - early southeastern NM poet of Recognition: the Poems of Eugene Manlove Rhodes, who is also included in Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950; & novelist of Beyond the Desert, Paso Por Aqui, The Proud Sheriff, The Stepsons of Light, & Trusty Knaves. He is also included in Southwest Writers Anthology. For more information, see the NM Index.
RIBERA-ORTEGA,
PEDRO -
RICE, RUTH KESSLER -
author of a series of letters, written by a 16-year-old girl who moved with her
family to Territorial Roswell, during it's early land boom days: Letters
From
RICHARDS, C. FENTON, JR. -
RICHARDS, KIMBERLY
- born & raised in Roswell,
lived in Ohio for 5 years & is now back home in Roswell; she writes under
her own name & under the name KIM BUNDY: a children's story, Aiko*, her retelling of the Japanese crane legend;
poetry, book & television show reviews, inspirational pieces & adult
science fiction/fantasy/horror including The Death of Jabari*. She’s also included in The Complete Guide
to Writing Fantasy* (she’s co-author of the chapter on medieval clothing), Paws
and Whiskers* (a charity anthology for animal rescue, which includes her
science fiction pet story, "Transmute"), Hell Hath No Fury*
(an anthology of women horror writers - edited by L. Marie Wood, containing her
story, "Spook") & Calliope's Mousepad Women Writer's Online*
(two of her stories are included). For
more information, please see the NM Children’s Author’s list.
RICHARDSON, BARBARA - Raton social worker & author of several reference works: Black Directory of New Mexico & Outstanding New Mexico Black Mentors
RICHEY, WILL -
RICHTER, CONRAD - Albuquerque Pulitzer & National Book Award-winning author of frontier novels such as A Country of Strangers, Early Americana, & Other Stories (set partially in NM), The Fields, The Lady (set partially in NM), The Light in the Forest, The Sea of Grass (set on the Plains of San Augustin), Tacey Cromwell (set in Socorro & Bisbee, AZ), The Town & The Trees. He is also included in Southwest Writers Anthology. For more information, see the NM Index
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
RICKETTS, ORVAL -
RICKS, J. BRENT -
RIGGS, (ROLLA) LYNN - Cherokee NM poet, playwright who wrote Green Grow the Lilacs, on which the musical, Oklahoma, was based; & who is included in Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950. For further information, see the NM Index.
RILEY, BARBARA - well
known
RILEY, CARROLL L. - Las
Vegas research associate at the Laboratory of Anthropology, an adjunct
professor at Highlands University, & author of, among others, Frontier
People: the Greater Southwest in the Protohistoric
Period, Kachina and the Cross: Indians and Spaniards in the Early
Southwest, Life and Adventures of Adolph F. Bandelier, American
Archaeologist and Scientist, Rio Del Norte: People of the Upper Rio
Grande from Earliest Times to the Pueblo Revolt & editor of Casas Grandes World
& Southwestern Journals of Adolph F. Bandelier. He’s also a contributor to The Road to
Aztlan: Art From a Mythic Homeland
RILEY, VERONICA / GOWEITDUWEETZA - Laguna poet, who is included in Remembered Earth: an Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature
RIO WRITERS see FORREST, GEORGE, TIKKUN, KUAN & WALTERS, JANICE F.
RISKIN, MARCI L. -
RITTENHOUSE, JACK D. -
Santa Fe bookseller, poet, essayist & author of, among others, Cabezon, a New Mexico Ghost Town, A Guide
Book to Highway 66, Maverick Tales of the Southwest, & Maverick
Tales: True Stories of Early Texas. He is also included in Bicentennial
‘76 -
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. For more information, please see the NM Index.
RIVERA, ROWENA A. -
RIX, MATTHEW L. -
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: a Self-Portrait of a People, Hispanic
Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest With
Selected Songs & The Matachines Dance: a Ritual Folk Dance;
he is also included in Bicentennial ‘76 - Albuquerque Remembers. For more information, see the NM Index.
ROBERTS, CALVIN A. -
Albuquerque Del Norte High School social studies teacher, husband of SUSAN & co-author of
ROBERTS, DAVE - New Mexican poet
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
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, STEVEN - New England-raised
ROBERTS, SUSAN ANN -
Albuquerque Del Norte High School social studies teacher & co-author of
ROBERTSON, EDNA - co-author of Artists of the Canyons and Caminos
ROBERTSON, KELL -
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, MAUDIE -
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 -
ROCKMAN, BARBARA -
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
RODNEY, JANET - editor, a
letterpress printer, poet of
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
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
ROENSCH, ELEANOR "JERRY" STONE -
ROESLER, JOHN B. -
ROESSEL, MONTY - Navajo freelance photojournalist, photographer & author of two photo-essays about his daughter, Jaclyn: Kinaaldá: a Navajo Girl Grows Up & Songs From the Loom: a Navajo Girl Learns to Weave & photographer of For Our Navajo People: Diné Letters, Speeches & Petitions, 1900-1960 & LENORA BEGAY TRAHANT’s The Success of the Navajo Arts and Crafts Enterprise
ROESSEL, ROBERT A., JR. - Navajo Director of the Rough Rock Demonstration School & author of Dinetah, Navajo Arts and Crafts, Navajo Education, 1948-1978, Its Progress and Its Problems, Navajo Education in Action: the Rough Rock Demonstration School & Pictorial History of the Navajo from 1860 to 1910. For more information on his children’s title, please see the New Mexican Children’s Authors list.
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, KAREN M. - NM author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
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
ROGERSON, MAIDA - NM writer, actress & contributor to Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work
ROHR, RICHARD -
ROHR, RONI - NYC designer, now
ROLLER, TONI - Santa Clara Pueblo potter & author of Indian Pottery
ROMANCITO, RICHARD, JR. - Taos/Zuni Pueblo painter, poet, actor, employee at the Millicent Rogers Museum, in Taos, & contributor to Ceremony of Brotherhood
ROMERO, CYNTHIA & ARTHUR -
ROMERO, LEO -
Chacon-born, Santa Fe artist, bookstore owner, editor & winner of a NEA
Fellowship in poetry, a Pushcart Prize, a Wulitzer residency, poet of Agua Negra &
the short story collection: Rita and Los Angeles. He is also included in Ceremony of
Brotherhood, Cuentos Chicanos (1980 ed.), Currents From the
Dancing River, Floating Borderlands, Hispanics in the United
States: an Anthology of Creative Literature, In Company: an Anthology of
New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 323+, New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, Paper
Dance: 55 Latino Poets, Pasó por Aquí p. 274+, Sandscript p.
102, Turquoise Land & Written With a Spoon: a Poet’s Cookbook
p. 38. For more information, see the NM
Index.
ROMERO, LEVI -
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, ORLANDO - Nambé novelist of Nambé, Year One, artist, librarian at the Fray Angélico Chávez History Library at the Palace of the Governors, winner of a NEA award & author of Adobe, Building and Living With Earth. He is also a contributor to The Best of From the Plaza: Interviews & Opinions from the Plaza of Santa Fe & Ceremony of Brotherhood. For more information, see the NM Index.
ROMERO,
ROMERO CASH, MARIE see CASH, MARIE ROMERO
ROMERO-PEREZ, HOLLY - Española writing teacher & author
ROPER, BERYL CAIN - NM
author of a history of her hometown: Trementina
Revisited
ROSE, NAOMI C. -
ROSEBROUGH, BOB (ROBERT) -
ROSEN, TERRY -
ROSENAK, CHUCK & JAN - Tesuque art experts of Museum of American Folk Art Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century American Art, The People Speak: Navajo Folk Art & The Saint Makers: Contemporary Santeras y Santeros. For more information, please see the NM Index.
ROSENBERG, EVELYN - NM sculptor, printmaker, painter & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
ROSENBERG, NANCY TAYLOR - former NM State Police officer & popular mystery author of Abuse of Power, California Angel, First Offense, Interest of Justice, Mitigating Circumstances & Trial By Fire
ROSENSTEIN, BETH -
ROSENTHAL, DEBORAH -
ROSNER, JOAN & HY -
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, INEZ -
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
ROSS, WREN -
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. For more information, see the NM Index.
ROYBAL, EDWARD R. -
ROYCE, STEPHEN -
RUBENSTEIN, MERIDEL - photographer & winner of fellowships from the Ferguson Grant from the Friends of Photography, National Endowment for the Arts, & the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, & who is included in The Essential Landscape: the New Mexico Photographic Survey & From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O’Keeffe as Icon
RUBIN, DAVID - former psychiatrist at Walker Air Force Base who at the time, wrote Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask. For more information, please see the NM Index.
RUBIN, GAIL -
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. For more information, please see the NM Index.
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*. For more information, please see the NM Index.
RUDOLPH, PENNY -
RUDULPH, CHARLES FREDERICK - a member of Pat Garrett’s posse & author of the narrative poem, Los Bilitos: the Story of Billy the Kid and His Gang. For more information, see the NM Index.
RUIZ, JOSEPH J. - a native Santa Fean who had to start working at the
age of 9 following the death of his father in order to help with family
finances. After finishing high school, he went to work for the gas company as a
meter reader. He retired some 30 years later as the vice president of that
company. He’s written 2 bilingual
children’s novels, set during a New Mexican Halloween: Little Juan Learns a
Lesson & The Little Ghost Who Wouldn't Go Away = El Pequeño Fantasma. He’s also written Angel on Daniel’s
Shoulder* & Manuel & the Magic Ring, about Manuel Armijo who
learns the secret as to why his Velarde family farm has always had the most
successful crops every year
RUMMEL, JACK -
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. Please see the NM Index for further information.
RUSHFORTH, SCOTT - NMSU associate anthropology professor & author of A Hopi Social History: Anthropological Perspectives On Sociocultural Persistence and Change
RUSK, DAVID - former
RUSSEK, JANET - Santa Fe former curator & photo editor for ELIOT PORTER, half of a wife & husband photography team & co-author of Ghost Ranch - Land of Light, a photographic examination of Ghost Ranch. She is married to DAVID SCHEINBAUM.
RUSSELL,
RUSSELL, SHARMAN APT - Mimbres, NM essayist, journalist, writing teacher, author of Anatomy of a Rose: Exploring the Secret Life of Flowers, Kill the Cowboy, Obsession With Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair With a Singular Insect & When the Land Was Young: Reflections on American Archaeology; winner of the 1992 Mountains & Plains Book-sellers Book Award, for Songs of the Flutemaker; author of a prehistoric NM novel, The Last Matriarch, & co-author of Built to Last: an Architectural History of Silver City, New Mexico. She is also included in Getting Over the Color Green: Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest, The Spirit That Wants Me, The Stories That Shape Us: Contemporary Women Write About the West: an Anthology, Sweet Breathing of Plants & Walking the Twilight: Women Writers of the Southwest. For more information, see the New Mexican Children’s Authors list & the NM Index.
RUTTE, MARTIN -
RUXTON, GEORGE FREDERICK -
19th century English author who lived in NM & wrote about the mountain men,
the
RYAN, DAVID & CLAUDIA -
RYAN, JOHN P. - author of
RYAN,
SAAVEDRA, GRACE - Bosque Farms administrative assistant at the NM Hispanic Cultural Center, & contributor to New Mexico: Celebrating 400 Years of History (a single issue of Cobblestone: American History for Kids, May, 1998)
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, prolific & popular science
fiction novelists, especially of the "Lost Swords" &
"Berserker" series. 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
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
SACHS, ROBERT - former Albuquerque massage therapist, social worker with Presbyterian Hospice, co-director of Diamond Way Health Associates, husband of MELANIE & author of Complete Guide to Nine Star Ki*, Health for Life: Secrets of Tibetan Ayurveda, & Rebirth Into Pure Land*
SADLER, LOUIS RAY - professor emeritus at NMSU & co-author with CHARLES H. HARRIS, III of The Archaeologist Was a Spy: Sylvanus G. Morley & the Office of Naval Intelligence. For more information, please see the NM Index.
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. For more information, please see the NM Index.
SÁENZ, BENJAMIN ALIRE - Picacho-born, Las Cruces,
now, El Paso former priest, writing professor, poet, collected in Calendar
of Dust, Dark & Perfect Angels, Elegies in Blue; &
novelist of Carry Me Like Water, The House of Forgetting, In
Perfect Light (set in El Paso) & Sammy and
Juliana in Hollywood (set in southern NM). He is also included in Getting
Over the Color Green: Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest,
Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets, Currents from the Dancing River
& Without Discovery: a Native Response to Columbus. For information
on his children’s books, please see the New Mexican Children’s Authors List
SÁENZ, LORENZO - Bayard author of a published mystery novel while still a high school student
SAGAN, MIRIAM - Santa Fe New Mexico Magazine columnist,
author of the poetry collections, Archeology of Desire, Rag Trade
& The Widow’s Coat, her memoirs, Dirty Laundry: 100 Days in a Zen
Monastery & Searching for a Mustard Seed: One
Young Widow's Unconventional Story, award-winning author of Unbroken Line: Writing in the Lineage of
Poetry; teacher, novelist, contributor to Christmas Blues, In
Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 358+, The Spirit
That Wants Me, Written With a Spoon: a Poet’s Cookbook & XY
Files: Poems on the Male Experience; & who is included in &
co-editor of Another Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico & New
Mexico Poetry Renaissance. For more information, please see the
New Mexican Children’s Authors list & the NM Index.
SAGEL, JIM - bilingual Española poet, playwright (the 1st
non-Spanish author to win El Premio Literario Ciudad de San Sebastian for the best play written
in Spanish, for Doña
Refugio y su Comadre*),
humorist, winner of Premio Casa de las Americas award
(the Latin American equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize for Tunomas
Honey); & novelist & short story author of: Más Que No Love it:
Cuentos, Short Stories, Sabelotodo Entiendelonada And Other Stories (which includes the
short story Doña Refugio y su Comadre), & El
Santo Queso: Cuentos = The Holy Cheese: Stories. He’s also the essayist of Dancing to Pay
the Light Bill: Essays on New Mexico and the Southwest & Straight From the Heart: Portraits of
Traditional Hispanic Musicians. He’s included in Ceremony
of Brotherhood, Cuentos Chicanos (1980 ed.), New Mexico Poetry
Renaissance, The Practice of Peace, The Spirit That Wants Me
& Tierra: Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico. Before his death
in 1998, he was married to TERESA ARCHULETA-SAGEL. For more information, please see the New Mexican Children's Authors, the
New Mexican Poets bibliographies & the NM Index
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
SAIZ, VICKI LYNN -
SAKS, CLAUDE -
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. For more information, please see the NM Index.
SALAZAR,
J. RICHARD - author of The Bartholome Fernandez Grant: Another Grazing Grant In Navajo
Country, Benjamin Hodges & the Corpus Christi Grant, The
Felipe Tafoya Grant: a Grazing Grant In West Central New Mexico, Juan Andrés Archuleta: a Brief History of His Family & of
His Role During the Mexican Period, The Military Career of Donaciano Vigil, Nuestra
Señora del Rosario, San Fernando y Santiago del Rio
de Las Truchas: a Brief History, Old Versus New: a Glimpse at
Anglo-Hispanic Relations in 1880s Albuquerque & Spanish-Indian
Relations In New Mexico During the Term of Comandant
General Pedro De Nava, 1790-1802
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. For information on her children’s book, see the New Mexican Children’s Authors List
SALINGER, ADRIENNE - UNM professor of photography & author of the highly acclaimed book of photographs, Living Solo. For more information, see the NM Index.
SALMON, M.H. "Dutch" - NM conservationist, natural history essayist of: Catfish as
Metaphor: a Fisherman's American Journey, Country Sports: the Rabid
Pursuits of a Redneck Environmentalist (a collection of columns that he’s
written for several NM newspapers), Gila Descending: a Southwestern Journey,
Gazehounds & Coursing: the History, Art & Sport of Hunting with Sighthounds, & Tales of the Chase: Hound-Dogs,
Catfish, & Other Pursuits Afield; novelist of
Home is the River, Signal to Depart; & owner, editor &
publisher of High Lonesome Books. For more information, see the NM Index.
SALMON, PAMELA -
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
SAMS, JAMIE - Santa Fe author of Dancing the Dream, the Seven Sacred Paths of Human Transformation & The 13 Original Clan Mothers: Your Sacred Path to Discovering the Gifts, Talents and Abilities of the Feminine Through the Ancient Teachings of the Sisterhood
SAMSON, JACK - Santa Fe
editor-in-chief of Field & Stream, longtime CBS editor, wire-service
foreign correspondent, biographer of Chennault,
fly-fisherman & author of Saltwater Fly Fishing & The Flying
Tiger: the True Story of General Claire Chennault
& the U.S. 14th Air Force in China* (Samson served under him). For
information on his children’s titles, see the New Mexican Children’s Authors
list.
SAMUEL, BARBARA -
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
SAMUELSON, CHARMAYNE PELT - part-time NM author & novelist of Kachina Rain, an extraordinary story of history & mysticism, involving time-travel in the Gallup & Acoma area. For more information, please see the NM Index.
SANCHEZ, CAROL LEE - Laguna Pueblo/Sioux painter, essayist, teacher, poet of Message Bringer Woman; & who is included in Reinventing the Enemy’s Language, Remembered Earth & Returning the Gift. Her brother is LEE FRANCIS & her sister is PAULA GUNN ALLEN. They are cousins of LESLIE MARMON SILKO, & their father is E. Lee Francis, a former NM lieutenant governor.
SÁNCHEZ, GEORGE -
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 Historia
de la Nueva Mexico, 1610 & Pecos, Gateway to Pueblos & Plains;
& author of Don Fernando Durán y Chaves's Land & Legacy, Explorers, Traders, and
Slavers: Forging the Old Spanish Trail, 1678-1850 & 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. Some of
his memories can be found in A New Mexico Scrapbook. For more information, see the NM Index.
SANCHEZ, JUANITA M. -
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 ccouple wrote Adobe Houses for Today: Flexible Plans for Your Adobe Home. For more information, please see the NM Index.
SÁNCHEZ-PADILLA, BEVERLY - NM native playwright, television writer & media producer, video producer/director, now San Antonio teacher & poet who is included in Floricanto Sí & Infinite Divisions: an Anthology of Chicana Literature
SANDERSIER, ANDY - Tijeras hiker, fisherman & author of Lakes of New Mexico: a Guide to Recreation
SANDLIN, LISA - Texas Gulf Coast-born, now Santa Fe 1995 Pushcart Prize winner, who has taught at Wayne State College in Nebraska & author of the short story collections: The Famous Thing About Death, In the River Province* & Message to the Nurse of Dreams. She is also included in Tierra: Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico. For more information, see the NM Index.
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, 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. He’s
also the co-editor with Herman Agoyo (former governor
of San Juan Pueblo) of Po’pay: Leader of the First American Revolution*. The book includes contributions from
outstanding
SANDOVAL, ARTURO - Española playwright & author who is included in Voces: an Anthology of Nuevo Mexicano Writers
SANDOVAL, ISABELLE
SANDOVAL, LINDA -
SANDOVAL, RICHARD - Pojoaque-raised Special Projects Publisher for New Mexico Magazine, author of Explore New Mexico: Insider’s Guide, Indians of New Mexico & New Mexico Home Furnishings, among other titles. He also illustrated The Quiz of Enchantment; & some of his memories of growing up can be found in A New Mexico Scrapbook. For information on his children’s title, see the New Mexican Children’s Authors list.
SANDOVAL, SECUNDINO -
born in the
SANDS, NICHOLS - a poet since he returned from
SANFORD, ALLAN R. - NM Institute of Mining & Technology professor of geophysics & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
SARGEANT, KATHRYN -
archaeologist & co-author of
SATTERTHWAIT, WALTER -
former Albuquerque, now
SAUNDERS, MARY CHLOE SCHOOLCRAFT -
SAVAGE, LES
- very popular
SAVINO, PATROCLUS EUGENE - Navajo author included in Neon Pow-Wow
SAVORY, ALLAN -
SAWYER, TIMOTHY L. JR. - a public information representative with UNM &
co-author with ELISEO "CHEO" TORRES, of Curandero: a Life in Mexican Folk Healing
SAYLES, STEPHEN - NMMI assistant professor of history & social sciences & a contributor to New Mexico in Maps
SAYLOR,
DENNIS E. - author of the 1980 book,
Songs in the Night: the Story of Marion K. Van Devanter,
who was
SCALICE, LINDA - author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
SCHAAF, GREGORY - Santa Fe scholar, director of the Center for Indigenous Arts & Culture, & author of American Indian Textiles: 2000 Artist Biographies: With Value/Price Guide, Ancient Ancestors of the Southwest, Hopi-Tewa Pottery: 500 Artist Biographies, ca. 1800-Present: with Value/Price Guide, Pueblo Indian Pottery: 750 Artist Biographies, c. 1800-Present: With Value/Price Guide Featuring Over 20 Years of Auction Records & Southern Pueblo Pottery. For further information, see the New Mexico Index.
SCHAAFSMA, CURTIS F. -
Santa Fe archaeologist, husband of POLLY,
Emeritus Curator of Anthropology at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture,
author of Apaches de Navajo: Seventeenth-Century Navajos in the Chama Valley
of New Mexico, co-editor of The Casas Grandes World, photographer of Rock Art in New
Mexico & contributor to Archaeologies of the Pueblo Revolt:
Identity, Meaning, & Renewal in the
SCHAAFSMA, POLLY - Santa Fe artist, anthropologist, wife of CURTIS, Southwestern art & petroglyph expert, author &/or editor of Images in Stone, Indian Rock Art of the Southwest, Kachinas in the Pueblo World, Marks in Place: Contemporary Responses to Rock Art, Rock Art in New Mexico, Southwest Indian Pictographs and Petroglyphs & Warrior, Shield & Star. She’s also included in The Casas Grandes World, New Light on Chaco Canyon & The Road to Aztlan: Art From a Mythic Homeland
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
SCHAEFER, JACK -
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 & the NM Index.
SCHARGEL, FRANKLIN P. - Albuquerque educator & author of Dropout Prevention Tools & Strategies to Help Solve Our School Dropout Problem. Please check the NM Index for more information.
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. For more information, please see the NM Index.
SCHAUER, SANDY -
entrepreneur, editor & reporter for the
SCHEIDEGGER, LIBBY -
SCHEINBAUM, DAVID - Santa Fe professor of art at the College of Santa Fe, co-author & photographer of Bisti & Ghost Ranch - Land of Light. He is married to JANET RUSSEK
SCHELBERG, JOHN D. - co-editor of Archaeological
Investigations At Los Esteros Reservoir, Northeastern
New Mexico & Recent Research on Chaco Prehistory. He was also a contributor to Prehistory
& History in the Southwest
SCHICK, ELEANOR -
SCHMEDDING,
JOSEPH -
SCHMIDT, FRED -
SCHNEIDER, WOLF - consulting editor at Southwest Art, editor-in-chief of the Santa Fean magazine, & novelist of What We Wanted*
SCHNEIDER-HECTOR, DIETMAR -
SCHOLDER, FRITZ - Santa Fe & Galisteo Lusieño painter & photographer, who taught at the Institute of American Indian Arts & author of Fritz Scholder: Lithographs, Fritz Scholder: the Retrospective & Indian Kitsch: the Use and Misuse of Indian Images. For more information, please see the NM Index.
SCHROEDER, ALBERT H. - Santa Fe U.S. National
Park Service ranger-naturalist, archaeologist, interpretive specialist, expert
witness in Indian Land Claims Hearings, chair of the New Mexico Cultural
Properties Review Committee, member of board of managers, of the School of
American Research, & author of A Brief History of Picuris Pueblo: a Tiwa Indian Group in North Central New Mexico;
co-author of A Brief History of New Mexico; editor of Collected
Papers in Honor of Helen Greene Blumenschein, The
Changing Ways of Southwestern Indians; a Historic Perspective, Collected
Papers in Honor of Helen Greene Blumenschein, Collected
Papers in Honor of Erik Kellerman Reed, Collected
Papers in Honor of Lyndon Lane Hargrave;
annotated A Colony on the Move: Gaspar Castaño de
Sosa's Journal, 1590- 1591 & contributed to The First 100 Years:
Papers in Honor of the State & Local Archaeological Societies of New Mexico
& Prehistory & History in the Southwest
SCHUELER, KAREN -
SCHULTZ, RANDALL & VIRGINIA -
SCHULTZ, RON -
SCHUMACHER, AILEEN -
former
SCHWARTZ, DR. GEORGE & KATHLEEN -
SCHWARTZ, GEORGE R. -
SCHWARTZ, LENI -
SCHWOEBEL, RICHARD -
SCOTT, CATHERINE J. - anthropologist,
archaeologist & research curator of the
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. For more information, please see the NM Index.
SCOTT, WARREN S. - Santa Fe-raised, now Durango photographer
& author of 100 Hikes in
Arizona, Exploring
Arizona's Wild Areas : A Guide For Hikers, Backpackers, Climbers, X-C Skiers
& Paddlers, Exploring Colorado's Wild Areas : A Guide For Hikers,
Backpackers, Climbers, Cross-Country Skiers, Paddlers & Victorian
Bonanza : Victorian Architecture Of The Rocky Mountain West. He also wrote & photographed the children’s books, Cities in the Sand: the Ancient Civilizations of the Southwest & Desert Dwellers: Native People of
the American Southwest
SCOTT, WINFIELD TOWNLEY - widely published &
influential critic,
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. More information on the group & the book can be found in the NM Index.
SCRUGGS, SANDY - Las Cruces’ high school teacher, firefighter, furniture designer & maker, & author of Adventures of Willy B & Ode to the Wart Hog: the Story of a Scruffy, Soggy, Fat-As-A-Log Dog*
SCURLOCK, DAN -
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:
SEDILLO, MICHELLE -
SEDLAR, JOHN RIVERA - NM
native, internationally acclaimed chef of the Los Angeles-area restaurants
Saint-Estephe,
SEED, SALLY -
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. More information on her can be found in the NM Index & From the Beginning: a Historical Survey Commemorating the Solemn Rededication of San Felipe de Neri Church.
SEHESTEDT, NELL SOTO - native New Mexican award-winning short story author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
SEIDEL, DR. ROBERT W. -
SEIDLER, KIM - UNM geographer & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
SEIFERLE, REBECCA - Farmington
artist-in-the-schools, librarian, teacher of English & creative writing at
San Juan Community College, & poet of Bitters, The Music We Dance
To* (which was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize) & The
Ripped-Out Seam. She has also published a book of translations, is the
publisher/editor of the poetry magazine The Drunken Boat & is
included in In Company: an Anthology of
SEKAQUAPTEWA, EMORY - Hopi anthropologist, editor & translator of Coyote and Little Turtle & Coyote and the Winnowing Birds
SELL, DEWITT -
SELLARS, RICHARD WEST - historian with the National Park Service in Santa Fe & author of Preserving Nature in the National Parks: a History*
SELLERS, KAYLOCK- St. Louis, MO born-&-raised, now Santa Fe poet who is included in The Practice of Peace & XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience
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
SERBER, CHARLOTTE -
former scientific librarian in the 1940's Technical Area of the
SETON, ERNEST THOMPSON -
SETON, JULIA MOSS -
SEWARDS, MICHELE BOURQUE - Placitas' children's book illustrator
SEWELL, LILLIAN GIBBS - NM poet who is included in New Mexico In Verse
SEWELL, O. - NM poet who is included in New Mexico In Verse
SEXSON, SUZETTE - a native New Mexican, Tijeras poet who grew up in
SHANAHAN, DANNY - Corrales' New Yorker Magazine cartoonist & author of Lassie! Get Help! & the children’s picture book, Buckledown, the Workhound. For further information, see the NM Index
SHANKMAN, SARAH -
part-time
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. Please see the NM Index for further information.
SHANTI,
DARSHAN G. -
SHAPIRO, BARBARA -
SHAPIRO, HOWARD-YANA - vice
president of agriculture for Seeds of Change, the largest certified organic
seed company in the
SHARP, JOSEPH -
SHATAR, KAREN MELODY- Lovelace midwife & author of Sacred Path of Midwifery. Please check the NM Index for more information.
SHAW, CHRIS -
SHEEHAN, MICHAEL J. - Archbishop of
SHEEHAN, PATTY -
SHEPARD, ANNA O. - NM anthropologist, geochemist, mineralogist, pottery expert & author of Ceramics for the Archaeologist. For more information, see the NM Index.
SHEPARDSON, MARY - anthropologist of the Navajo who assisted IRENE STEWART in writing her autobiography, Voice In Her Tribe, author of Navajo Mountain Community: Social Organization and Kinship Terminology & contributor to Navajo Religion & Culture: Selected Views: Papers in Honor of Leland C. Wyman. For more information, see the NM Index.
SHEPHERD, GEORGE W., JR. - Ranchos de Taos professor emeritus at the University of Denver’s Graduate School of International Studies & author of Popular Politics, Renewing Democracy for a Sustainable World*
SHEPHERD, URSULA -
SHEPPARD, CARL D. - University of Minnesota professor emeritus, now Santa Fe author of several excellent books, including The Archbishop’s Cathedral, Creator of the Santa Fe Style: Isaac Hamilton Rapp, Architect & Saint Francis Murals of Santa Fe
SHERMAN, EDGAR - NM poet who is included in New Mexico In Verse
SHERMAN, JOHN - Santa Fe editor of El Palacio, Taos historian, humor columnist, author of Taos: a Pictorial History, poet of America Is a Negro Child: Race Poems, & who is included in Tarasque II
SHETTLES, LANDRUM B. - UNM-educated expert in female infertility & author of How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby. For more information, see the NM Index.
SHIELDS, HELEN -
Tularosa native plant expert & author of Valmont, an Early 1900s
Railroad & Ranching Community Near Alamogordo: Archaeological Data Recovery
at LA 115,252, Otero County, New Mexico
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)
SHORT, CLARICE - NM
rancher near
SHORTER, FRANK -
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
SHPAKOW, TANYA -
SHUKMAN, HENRY -
England-born,
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
SIDES, HAMPTON - senior
editor of Outside Magazine who lives in
SILER, ROMA - NM novelist, poet & author who is included in Spirit That Wants Me
SILKO, LESLIE MARMON - Laguna Pueblo-born, 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. For more information, see the NM Index.
SIMION, TILLIE -
SIMMONS, HAL -
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 Government In New Mexico, Spanish Pathways: Readings in the History of Hispanic New Mexico, When Six-Guns Ruled, & Witchcraft In the Southwest. He is also included in Fray Angelico Chavez: Poet, Priest, & Artist, 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. He’s also won the History Society of NM’s Dorothy Woodward Award for Education. For additional information, see the New Mexican Children’s Authors list & the NM Index.
SIMMONS, STEVE - Corrales photographer, publisher of Camera Arts & View Camera magazines & author of Using the View Camera, all about large format photography. For more information, please see the NM Index.
SIMMS, J.
SIMON, CLIFF -
SIMONS, VICKI -
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. For more information, see the NM Index.
SINCLAIRE, PETER -
SINGER, KATIE -
SINGH KHALSA, DHARMA -
former
SIRINGO, CHARLES A. - Santa Fe’s "cowboy detective", author of History of Billy the Kid, his autobiographies, Riata and Spurs: the Story of a Lifetime Spent In the Saddle as Cowboy and Ranger & Texas Cowboy. He is also included in Southwest Writers Anthology. For more information, see the NM Index.
SISNEROS, MICHELLE TSOSIE - Santa Clara Pueblo award-winning Illustrator
of Kathleen Bryant’s picture book Kokopelli's
Gift. She’s the great niece of PABLITA VELARDE &
niece of HELEN HARDIN.
SITCHLER, ROSA CALKINS -
Albuquerque-born, now
SKEELE, REBECCA - Santa Fe counselor, life coach, & ordained minister, who facilitates seminars worldwide on personal growth & practical spirituality, & author of You Can Make It Heaven: How to Enrich Your Life With Abundance & Loving. For more information, please see the NM Index.
SKINNER, JOSÉ - author of Flight and Other Stories, who lived for parts of the 1980s & '90s in Albuquerque & Santa Fe. For further information, please see the NM Index.
SKLAR,
DEIDRE - an Assistant Professor of
Dance at the University of California, Irvine & author of Dancing With the Virgin: Body & Faith in
the Fiesta of Tortugas, New Mexico*, about the annual three-day fiesta which honors the Virgin of
Guadalupe
SKOGLUND, CLIFF - owner of the Geronimo Restaurant in
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 -
SLAYMAKER, MARTHA - author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
SLIFER, DENNIS - Santa Fe geologist with the NM Environmental Department, author of Guide to Rock Art of the Utah Region: Sites With Public Access, Signs of Life: Rock Art of the Upper Rio Grande, Serpent & the Sacred Fire: Fertility Images in Southwest Rock Art & co-author of Kokopelli: Fluteplayer Images in Rock Art. For more information, please see the NM Index.
SMITH, ALICE KIMBALL - Los Alamos 1940's Town Councilor, history teacher, co-editor of Robert Oppenheimer, Letters and Recollections, & contributor to Standing By and Making Do: Women of Wartime Los Alamos
SMITH, ANNE M. - 1st woman to receive a
doctorate from Yale, ethnologist & author of Ethnography of the Northern
Utes, Indian Education in New Mexico, New Mexico Indians:
Economic, Educational, & Social Problems & Ute Tales
SMITH, CAROL COX -
SMITH, EARL & ROSE -
SMITH, ELIZA WELLS - director of Special Projects for the State’s
Museum Services Division & author of A Bridge to the Past*, a
condensed chronology of NM’s history going back to the 13th century, told
through the programs at state monuments at Coronado, El Camino Real, Fort
Selden, Fort Sumner, Jemez & Lincoln.
A former photo editor at Vanity Fair magazine & the New York Times, Smith moved to
SMITH, GAYLE FULWYLER - northern NM painter, farmer, & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
SMITH, HERBERT H. -
former
SMITH, J. B. - Portales native, film & video producer, locations coordinator with the NM Film Office & author who is included in 100 Years of Filmmaking in New Mexico 1898-1998
SMITH, JAUNE QUICK-TO-SEE - Corrales Cree/Flathead/Shoshone modernisst painter/printer of landscapes & Indian figures; & illustrator of LUCI TAPAHONSO’s A Breeze Swept Through. For more information, see the NM Index & Every Day is a Good Day: Reflections by Contemporary Indigenous Women.
SMITH, JULIA SHIREK -
SMITH, KARLEENE -
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. For more information, please see the NM Index.
SMITH, LAYNE VICKERS see LAYNE, MARION MARGERY
SMITH, LINDA WASMER -
SMITH, MARTIN CRUZ -
Isleta Pueblo (raised in Tularosa & Las Lunas) mystery & horror author
of unusual novels, including Gorky Park, Polar Star, Night-wing,
SMITH, MARYLOU M. - 4th
generation New Mexican, now living in
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
SMITH, Q. SHEREE -
Chicago-born,
SMITH,
ROBERT F. -
SMITH, SUSAN -
SMITH, SUZANNE - formerly a senior research scientist at the Los
Alamos National Laboratory, a free-lance journalist & piano teacher, she’s
been writing stories, poems, & nonfiction since she was five years old.
She’s the author of three cookbooks: Cooking with Lavender*, Pumpkin
Recipes* & Recipes for Romance*.
She’s also the author of A Writer’s Phrasebook*, & A
Writer’s Bookshelf*, which rose from the needs of her students in the
writing classes she teaches at UNM- Los Alamos.
She also wrote Handbook for the International Information Economy*,
New Risks*; Sourcebook II* & The Standard Schnauzer in
America*.
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. For more information, see the NM Index.
SMORYNSKI, RONALD -
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. For more information, please see the NM Index.
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. For more information, see the NM Index.
SNORF, ANNIE LAURIE - NM poet who is included in New Mexico In Verse
SNYDER, GAIL -
SNYDER, MARYHELEN -
SOBELMAN, ÁNNAH - Los Angeles-born, now Taos mountains editor, publisher of The Taos Review, poetry teacher & poet who is included in Another Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico
SODEN, BARBARA J. -
SOGAN, DANIEL -
SOMOZA, JOSEPH -
Asturias, Spain-born, now Las Cruces poet, former instructor at NMSU, long-time
poetry editor of Puerto del Sol, & author of several poetry collections:
Cityzen, Out of This World & Sojourner,
So To Speak. For more information,
see In Company: an Anthology of
SONG, TERRY -
SONKISS, LOIS - Mayan-born Tijeras editor & artist, included in Remembered Earth: an Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature
SOTO, JOSE LUIS -
SOUKUP, MARTHA - former Albuquerque, now San Francisco, Nebula Award-winning science fiction author who is included in Nebula Awards 26, Nebula Awards 30, Starlight 2, Things Invisible to See: Gay and Lesbian Tales of Magic Realism & Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy. For more information, please see the New Mexican Children’s Authors list.
SOUTHARD,
W. W. - Lake Arthur-born editor of the Artesia Daily Press, managing editor of the Clovis News-Journal, & western author of the NM novels, Bitter
Pecos, set in
SOUTHWICK, MARICIA -
SOWERS, FRANK -
SOWERS, MIRIAM -
SPANGLER, VEDA C. -
Mountainair retired Civil Service secretary & poet who is included in Sandscript
p. 63 &
SPARKS, TWANA -
SPEARS,
SPEARWATER, GARY GREY - Santa Clara Pueblo artist who is included in Ceremony of Brotherhood
SPENCE, SHARON LLOYD -
SPENCE, WILLARD - Taos & Abiquiu potter & author of A Potter’s Odyssey
SPENCER, BRENNA - author of Kids First in New Mexico, which
contains names & addresses of places of interest to children, most located
in
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. For more information, please see the NM Index.
SPENCER, KATHERINE - NM anthropologist of the Navajo & author of Mythology and Values: an Analysis of Navajo Chantway Myths. For further information, please see KATHERINE SPENCER HALPERN
SPENCER, LAURA GUTIERREZ -
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 -
SPIVEY, RICHARD L. - author of Maria, which was expanded & revised under the title: The Legacy of
Maria Poveka Martinez / by Richard L. Spivey ;
photography by Herbert Lotz
ST. CHARNEZ, CASEY -
ST. CLAIR, GILBERT K. - director of the Institute for Public Policy at UNM & co-author of New Mexico Government
STAATS, TODD -
STACEY,
JANE - former NM chef, who worked
with Martha Stewart, & co-author of Coffee: the Essential Guide to the
Essential Bean, Pasta*, & Pretty Cakes: the Art of Cake
Decorating; & author of The Best of Waffles and Pancakes, Southwestern
Grilling*, & The Soy Sauce Cookbook*
STAHLECKER, DALE -
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
STANFORD, CANDICE - northern Minnesota-born, former reporter,
freelance writer, photographer, former columnist of a weekly children's book
review column for the Las Cruces Sun News
& author of The Man Who Set the Town Dancing = El Hombre que Puso a Bailar
a Todo el Pueblo
STANLEY, DIANE -
STANLEY,
F. (FRANCIS) - pseudonym of S.F.L Crocchiola, 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, FRANKIE WRIGHT - Tucumcari radio entertainer, lecturer, journalist & poet
STANLEY, WILLIAM - UNM assistant professor of political science & author of Protection Racket States, Elite Politics, Military Extortion and Civil War In El Salvador*
STANTON, EILEEN -
STAPLETON, ERNEST S. - a professor in the
STARR, MIRABAI -
STARR, SUSANNA -
STASHEFF, CHRISTOPHER - spent his early childhood in Mount Vernon, NY, grew up in Ann Arbor, MI, taught college, now Portales author of many excellent fantasy novels: Escape Velocity, King Kobold Revived, Mind Out of Time: Stories, My Son, the Wizard, Odd Warlock Out, The Shaman, To the Magic Born, Warlock Enlarged, Warlock Enraged, Warlock In Spite of Himself, Warlock Unlocked, Warlock's Night Out, Wizard & a Warlord, Wizard In a Feud, Wizard In Bedlam, Wizard In Chaos, Wizard In Midgard, Wizard In Mind, Wizard In Peace, Wizard In Rhyme, Wizard In the Way, & Wizard In War. For more information, please see the NM Index.
STEADMON, JERRY -
Portales English professor at ENMU & poet who is included in
STEDMAN, MYRTLE - Tesuque artist, a northern NM Living Treasure & author of Adobe Architecture, Adobe Fireplaces, Adobe Remodeling, & Rural Architecture of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado & The Ups & Downs of Living Alone in Later Life: a New Look at Life. For more information, see the NM Index.
STEEL, JUDITH -
STEELE, THOMAS J. - respected Albuquerque priest, artist, teacher &
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 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. He also edited & translated The
Complete Sermons of Jean Baptiste Lamy*, the
first Bishop of Santa Fe, Archbishop of New Mexico & the original of the
title character of WILLA CATHER’s novel Death Comes for the
Archbishop. For more information,
please see the NM Index.
STEEN, ATHENA SWENTZELL - former Santa Fe & Santa Clara Pueblo co-author of The Straw Bale House
STEEN, CHARLIE R. - UNM history professor & co-author of Making Sense of the Episcopal Church* & Pajarito Plateau: a Bibliography
STEEPER, NANCY COOK -
STEIN, JOEL B. -
STEIN, MARJORIE SHAPIRO -
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. For further information, please see the NM Index.
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. For more information, see the NM Index.
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.
She’s also the poet of Red Velvet Shoes: Contemporary Haiku*,
which range from serious to humorous, solemn to gleeful as the poet celebrates
the joy of forming words into images to touch a reader's heart
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 -
STEPHENS, REED - pseudonym of STEPHEN R. DONALDSON - under this name, he’s written a mystery: Man Who Risked His Partner
STEPTOE, LAMONT - local poet & author of Crimson River*, Mad Minute* & Uncle’s South China Sea Blue Nightmare*
STERN,
PETER - contributor to History of
Hope: the African American Experience in
STERN, RICHARD MARTIN -
STETSON, CATHERINE - NM poet who is included in Voices From the Rio Grande
STEVENS, DOMINIQUE E. - archaeologist who received her M.A. in anthropology from ENMU, & who co-authored Sandia Cave: a Study in Controversy
STEVENS, JAN ROMERO - former Las Vegas native who lived for many years in Flagstaff, & who wrote bilingual books about a little boy who lives in Las Vegas: Carlos & the Carnival, Carlos & the Cornfield, Carlos & the Skunk, Carlos & the Squash Plant, Carlos Digs to China; & Twelve Lizards Leaping: a New Twelve Days of Christmas. She died in 2000.
STEVENS, JOSEPH E. - Santa Fe winner of the Western Writers of America's Spur award & author of America’s National Battlefield Parks: a Guide & Hoover Dam: an American Adventure
STEVENS, MONTAGUE -
English bear hunter from
STEVENS, PHILLIS -
STEVENS, REED -
STEVENS, RICHARD L. -
STEVENS, THOMAS WOOD - NM playwright, author of the pageant, Entrada of Coronado: a Spectacular Historic Drama & poet who is included in Signature of the Sun; Southwest Verse, 1900-1950. For more information, please see the NM Index.
STEVENSON, MATILDA COXE - pioneer ethnologist, specialist on Zuni culture & author of The Zuni Indians: Their Mythology, Esoteric Fraternities and Ceremonies. For more information, see the NM Index
STEVENSON, PAUL R. - NM author of an epic pre-Civil War novel, Cross a Wide River
STEVENSON, PHILIP - Santa
Fe novelist, poet, playwright, scriptwriter of The Story of G.I. Joe
(based on Ernie Pyle’s work) & short story author. He is also the
pseudonymous novelist, using the name LARS
LAWRENCE, of Morning,
STEVES, RICK - Santa Fe travel author of Kidding Around Seattle, Rick Steves' Best of Scandinavia, Rick Steves' Best of the Baltics & Russia, Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door, Rick Steves' France, Belgium & the Netherlands, Rick Steves' Italy & Rick Steves' Spain & Portugal
STEWART, IRENE - Navajo author of A Voice In Her Tribe
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, & is included in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 480+. For more information, see the NM Index.
STILLMAN, DEANNE -
STOCK, MELISSA T. -
STOCKEL, H. HENRIETTA - Santa Fe poet, photographer, former schoolteacher
on the Mescalero Apache Reservation, now affiliated with the Cochise Community
College in Sierra Vista, AZ & author of Chiricahua Apache Women &
Children: Safekeepers of the Heritage, The
Lightning Stick: Arrows, Wounds, & Indian Legends, Shame &
Endurance: the Untold Story of the Chiricahua Apache Prisoners of War, Survival
of the Spirit: Chiricahua Apaches in Captivity & Women of the Apache
Nation: Voices of Truth; co-author of Geronimo's Kids: a Teacher's
Lessons on the Apache Reservation, Medicine Women, Curanderas,
& Women Doctors; & editor of LaDonna
Harris: a Comanche Life
STONE, ARLENE -
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, JUSTIN F. -
STONE, KAREN G. - Albuquerque Journal columnist with multiple sclerosis, & author of Awakening to Disability, Nothing About Us Without Us. For more information, see the NM Index.
STONE, WILLIAM -
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*
STORME, SARAH - NM author, pseudonym of SARAH BAKER, an engineer, novelist of the mystery, Murder in Marshall's Bayou*, & the romances, Wild Montana Hearts*, & Emily Again
STOUTENBURG, ADRIEN -
STRANGE, JOHNNA -
STRASBERG, DEE see DAOMA WINSTON
STRATTON, DAVID H. - native New Mexican, professor of history at Washington State College, editor of The Memoirs of Albert B. Fall, author of Tempest Over Teapot Dome, & who is included in New Mexico Past and Present: a Historical Reader. For more information, please see the NM Index.
STRAW, MARY JEAN -
STREIN, ROBERT - retired
State of
STREIT, TAYLOR - Hall of Fame Taos owner of the Taylor Streit Fly Fishing Service, author of Instinctive Fly Fishing: a Guide’s Guide to Better Fishing*, Taylor Streit’s No Nonsense Guide to Fly Fishing In New Mexico & who is included in Fly-Fishing in Northern New Mexico. Please see the NM Index for further information.
STRICKLAND, CHARLENE -
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. For further information, please see the NM Index.
STROCK, GLEN - illustrator of On the Cliffs of Acoma: a Pueblo Story With a Short History of Acoma, a bilingual children’s novel
STRONG,
BEVERLY JEAN - Santa Fe owner of Tiqua Gallery, artist, a collector of Black folk art &
toy animals & author of Gypsy
the Circus Dog: a Charming Story About a Poodle for Those Who Love Them*,
who lives & is the official greeter at Jean's gallery
STRONG, KAREN & WALLY - Santa Fe Native American writers & playwrights included in Neon Pow-Wow
STRONGBOW, DYANNE - New Mexican Native American artist & illustrator of the picture book, Big Moon Tortilla
STRONGIN, LYNN - NM poet who is included in Voices From the Rio Grande
STRUCK, CARL - Vadito poet & songwriter
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. Please see the NM Index for more information.
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. For further information,
please see the NM Index.
STUART, TIMOTHY S. - Crownpoint’s Rehoboth Christian High School principal & author of Children at Promise: 9 Principles to Help Kids Thrive in an At-Risk World: Turning Hard Knocks Into Opportunities. For more information, please see the NM Index.
STUEVER,
MARY - co-editor of Field Guide to the Sandia Mountains,
with ROBERT
JULYAN. For further
information, please see the NM Index.
SUBLETTE, JAMES E. & MARY - former Portales professors of biology at ENMU & co-authors of Fishes of New Mexico
SUINA, JOSEPH - Cochiti
Pueblo Tribal Council member, UNM associate education professor who is included
in Archaeologies of the
SULLIVAN, CHERYL - local expert on early childhood & author of Playful Learning: an Alternate Approach to Preschool
SUMMERS, DAVID L. - Des Moines, NM-born, now NMSU astronomer & Southwestern science fiction author of Pirates of Sufiro* & editor of several Hadrosaur Tales*, a collection of dinosaur tales by various international authors
SUMNERS, CRISTINA -
former English Episcopalian assistant priest, now
SUNDT, WILLIAM M. - archaeologist & contributor to An Early Basketmaker Campsite: Report on Site AS-1, a Field Project of the Albuquerque Archaeological Society, San Ysidro Pueblos: Two Prehistoric Pueblo IV Indian Ruins in New Mexico, Secrets of a City: Papers on Albuquerque Area Archaeology in Honor of Richard A. Bice; & co-author of 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
SUNSTROM, MARY - NM illustrator of the Extremely Weird nonfiction series, for children: Birds, Fishes, Frogs, Insects, Primates, Reptiles, Sea Creatures, Snakes & Spiders
SUTIN,
MIKE - commercial lawyer in Santa
Fe, who serves as pro-bono counsel to PEN New Mexico & the New Mexico Book
Association & the poet of Naked
Ladies on the Road: Poems* & Voices from the Corner/Voces del
Rincon*
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
SWAN, GLADYS - New
Mexico-raised, now on the faculty of the MFA Program in Writing at Vermont
College, & author of Carnival for the Gods, Do You Believe in
Cabeza de Vaca?: Stories, Ghost Dance: a Play of Voices (set in
Chloride, NM), News From the Volcano: Stories, Of Memory and Desire:
Stories & On the Edge of the Desert; Stories, some of which are
set in NM. For more information, see
also Walking the Twilight II
SWANDER, MARY - professor of literature at
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
SWARTLEY, RON - NM author
of several travel books: The Apache Travel Guide, Indian Country New
Mexico, New Mexico’s Atomic Tour & Touring the Pueblos
SWEARINGEN, ROBERT - Indiana-born poet who received a B.A. in English
from
SWEET,
JILL D. - UNM doctoral graduate,
professor of anthropology & history of anthropology at Skidmore College
& author of Dances of the Tewa Pueblo Indians: Expressions of a New Life
SWEET, LINDA VOZAR - Jemez Springs potter & author who is included in Walking the Twilight II
SWENTZELL, PORTER & ROSE - Santa Clara Pueblo child authors of Story of Rosie’s Rat. For more information, see the NM Index.
SWENTZELL, RINA - Santa Clara Pueblo-born, now Santa Fe, potter, educator, sister of NORA NARANJO-MORSE & essay contributor to Ancient Land, Ancestral Places, In Search of Chaco: New Approaches to an Archaeological Enigma, Multicultural Southwest: a Reader, Pueblo Artists, The Road to Aztlan: Art From a Mythic Homeland & To Touch the Past: the Painted Pottery of the Mimbres People. For more information, see the New Mexican Children’s Authors list & the NM Index.
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. For further information, please see the NM
Index.
SWISHER, ROBERT K. - NM poet, rancher, mountain guide, novelist of The
Land, The Last Narrow Gauge Train Robbery, Love Lies Bleeding
& The Last Day In Paradise*,
a novel about greed, love, devotion, murder, & a statement that all mankind
should have the right to live the way they choose & that people can work
through their differences (set on a NM ranch).
For more information, see the New Mexican Children’s Authors list
SYMMES-WESTBROOK,
SUSAN - co-author of
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. For further information, please see the NM Index.
SZASZ, MARGARET CONNELL -
UNM professor of history & author of Education and the American Indian:
the Road to Self-Determination Since 1928 & First Congregational
SZE, ARTHUR - Pojoaque
teacher, director of the writing program at the
TAICHERT, PARI NOSKIN -
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
TAINTOR, ANNE - Youngsville, NM businesswoman, artist, designer of refrigerator magnets, cards & author of the very funny I Can't Be Good All the Time. For more information, please see the NM Index.
TALBERT, MARC - Tesuque
author of acclaimed, award-winning children's & young adult novels,
including Dead Birds Singing, Heart of a Jaguar, Pillow of
Clouds, Rabbit in the Rock, Star of Luís (about a young
TALIA, IRENE -
TALL WOMAN (Rose Mitchell) - Navajo weaver, herbalist, midwife & author of Tall Woman: The Life Story of Rose Mitchell, a Navajo Woman, c. 1874-1977. For further information, please see the NM Index.
TALLANT, BERT - Public Health Service clinical laboratory scientist, & author who is included in Fly-Fishing in Northern New Mexico
TALLENT, ELIZABETH - Española short story author of Honey: Stories, In Constant Flight: Stories & Time With Children: Stories; & novelist of Museum Pieces: a Novel (all set primarily in NM). For more information, see the NM Index.
TANNER, CLARA LEE -
former New Mexican anthropologist, now Professor Emerita
at the
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. For more information, see the NM Index & the New Mexican Children’s Authors list
TARBESCU, EDITH -
Placitas author of Annushka's Voyage, a
picture book about two Russian sisters who leave their Grandmother to join
their father in
TARN, NATHANIEL
- anthropologist, critic, poet,
university professor emeritus, author of House of Leaves*, I Think
This May Be Eden*, Lyrics for the Bride of God*, & Views from
the Weaving Mountain*; translator of Pablo Neruda’s
Alturas de Macchu Picchu; some of his other work can be found in In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets
After 1960 p. 96+, The Spirit That Wants Me & Tarasque I. He lives in
TARVER, BEN - southern NM playwright, screenwriter, university professor & author of the historical novel, Far From the Angels: a Tale of Revolutionary Mexico
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. For further information, please see the NM
Index.
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
TAUB, MARA - teacher & community
activist who’s been involved with prisoner advocacy & health education, the
author of Juries: Conscience of the Community* & who’s included in The
Best of From the Plaza: Interviews & Opinions from the Plaza of Santa Fe
TAUS, VICI - author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
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 Niños Venir a Mi: Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish*, 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.
For more information, see the NM Index.
TAYLOR,
QUINTARD -
TEAGUE,
JONATHAN M. - co-author of The Old House Workbook:
Rehabilitation Guidelines for Albuquerque
TECUBE, LEROY - Jicarilla
Apache infantryman in
TEDLOCK, BARBARA - former
NM anthropologist, now professor of anthropology at SUNY,
TEDLOCK, DENNIS - former
NM anthropologist, now English professor at SUNY,
TEMPEST, PETER -
TELLINGTON-JONES, LINDA - Santa Fe animal trainer & author of the An Introduction to the Tellington-Jones Equine Awareness Method: the T.E.A.M. Approach to Problem-Free Training & Tellington Ttouch: a Breakthrough Technique to Train & Care for Your Favorite Animal. She is also included in Intimate Nature: the Bond Between Women & Animals. For more information, see the NM Index.
TEMPLETON, KAREN
- A transplanted Easterner who
called NYC "home" for more than a decade, now lives in
TENORIO, FRANCISCA HERRERA
-
TEPPER, SHERI S. -
award-winning Santa Fean with many highly praised feminist SF & fantasy novels:
including, Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, set outside
TERR, JIM - northern NM author of The New Mexico Driver’s Survival Guide
TERRELL, STEVE - staff writer for the Santa Fe New Mexican, host of 2 music shows on Santa Fe Public Radio & contributor to Enduring Cowboys: Life in the New Mexico Saddle
TERRY, ROBERT H. - part-time NM resident, professor of history at York College of Pennsylvania, director of its Oral History Center, author of Light in the Valley: the McCurdy Mission School Story & Flying BR: the History of the New Mexico Boys and Girls Ranches
TESSLER, MARGARET - Houston-born, former elementary school teacher, former 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. For more information, please see the NM Index.
TESTER, VICTORIA EDWARDS - poet who lives in Santa Rita & in the Chiricahua Mountains & author of Miracles of Sainted Earth & Dying in the City of Flowers* (an autobiographical novel). For more information, please see: In Company: an Anthology of New Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 422+, Shine On You Crazy Diamond: Poems By Teens & Their Mentors & the NM Index.
TETERS, CHARLENE - Spokane activist, multimedia installation artist,
teacher at the Institute of American Indian Arts & contributor to The Best of From the
Plaza: Interviews & Opinions from the
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. For more information, please see the NM Index.
THACKREY,
TED - Clovis Chronicle editor, Wichita & Los Angeles editor,
staff writer, script writer for TV & movies, & novelist of the NM
mystery, Preacher*
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, ANITA GONZALES -
retired
THOMAS, DR. GERALD W. - former president of NMSU & co-author of Victory In World War II: the New Mexico Story
THOMAS, MARJORIE - an author, educator,
& community activist from
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 NM; 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
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, JO ELLEN - NM former teacher of massage, touch therapy, movement, & author of On My Altar: the Place of Soul Medicine, which guides individuals through altar building & practice. Please see the NM Index for more information.
THOMPSON, MARTHA -
THOMPSON, PAUL L. - Tucumcari-born, NM-raised cowboy &
author of The Littlest Gun, a NM Territorial Western novel about
14-year-old Janice
McCord whose family was shot down & her odyssey of revenge
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
THOMPSON, SALLY-ALICE -
THOMPSON, WAITE - long-time
THOMSON, LULU L. - Roswell-born, now Las Vegas newspaper advertising executive & poet who is included in Earth Chant & Turquoise Land
THORNBURGH, LUELLA -
author of the 1960’s The Easy Art of Gardening in the
THORNDIKE, JOHN -
THORNHILL, RANDY - Regents’ Professor & Professor of Biology at UNM & co-author of Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion
THORNTON, JAMES - former
THORP, NATHAN HOWARD ("COWBOY" JACK) -
THORPE, JIM -
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
TIBBETS, JOSEPH M. -
TICE, ARDEN -
TIERNEY, GAIL D. - Santa Fe anthropologist, botanist, paleoecologist, consultant & co-author with WILLIAM W. DUNMIRE of Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners & Wild Plants of the Pueblo Province: Exploring Ancient and Enduring Uses & author of Roadside Plants of Northern New Mexico
TIJERINA, REIES LOPEZ - land grant activist, active in the 1960’s Chicano movement, preacher & author of his autobiography, They Called Me "King Tiger": My Struggle for the Land and Our Rights
TIKKUN, KUAN -
TILLER, VERONICA E. VELARDE - Albuquerque Jicarilla Apache author of <Discover Indian Reservations USA, Jicarilla Apache Tribe: a History & Tiller’s Guide to Indian Country. For more information, please see the NM Index.
TIMONER,
JENNIFER -
Buffalo, NY-born & raised, now
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. Please see the NM
Index for more information
TISCH, CHARLENE - NM author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
TITUS, FRANK
TJARDES,
TAMARA J. - curator of Asian &
Middle Eastern art at the Museum of International Folk Art, she organized a
successful exhibition of nineteenth-century Japanese artist Tsukioka
Yoshitoshi's woodblock prints in 2001; this inspired
her to produce One Hundred Aspects of the Moon: Japanese Woodblock Prints by
Yoshitoshi*. Yoshitoshi
specialized in a form of art known as ukiyo-e, which
was used in social commentary in a cartoon type of way, a way to comment on the
aristocracy & the samurai class.
TOADHOUSE - pseudonym of ALLAN GRAHAM, widely shown visual artist, poet
of Conceptual Eyes* & who’s included in In
Company: an Anthology of
TOADLENA, BRENT - Navajo
author, educated in
TOBIAS, HENRY JACK -
TOBIN, JUDITH - Tesuque artist & co-author of Symbols of Faith: a Visual Journey to Historic Churches of New Mexico
TODDY,
IRVING - the oldest son of famed
Navajo artist Beatien Yazz,
he attended
TOHE, LAURA - Navajo assistant professor of English at Arizona State University & poet of No Parole Today, who is also included in: Ceremony of Brotherhood, Reinventing the Enemy’s Language, Returning the Gift, Songs From This Earth on Turtle's Back & Southwestern Women: New Voices
TOHEE, MAH-DO-GE - Santa Fe Oto-Ioway poet & editor, who is included in Songs From This Earth on Turtle's Back
TOLBERT, MILDRED - NM author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
TOLLETT, JOHN -
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. For more information,
please see the NM Index.
TOOMER, JEAN - Harlem
Renaissance poet, author & NM resident included in Calling the Wind:
Twentieth Century African American Short Stories, I, Too, Sing
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*
TOPAHA, C.M. - Farmington Navajo anthropologist, poet, playwright & contributor to Christmas Blues
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, LARRY -
TORRES-METZGAR, JOSEPH - Hispanic novelist. For more information, see the NM Index.
TORREZ, JULIETTE -
TÓRREZ, ROBERT J. - the
New Mexican State Historian, Los Ojos-born, 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, May, 1998
TORRES-METZGAR, JOSEPH
- Albuquerque-born, now
TOUCHETTE, CHARLEEN - celebrated
TOULOUSE, BETTY - long-time curator at the Laboratory of Anthropology, the Indian Arts Fund, the School of American Research, the Museum of New Mexico & author of Pueblo Pottery of the New Mexico Indians
TOVAR, LUIS -
TOWNSEND, DAVID -
TOYA, DEBRA HAALAND - Laguna/Jemez
Pueblo-born, now
TRACE,
JOHN - author of the 1941 NM
western,
see also BENNETT FOSTER
TRACK, SAGE -
TRAFTON, CLINT -
Albuquerque-raised engineer, psychologist,
TRAHANT, LENORA BEGAY - Navajo
journalist, former editor of the Navajo Nation Today, now,
TRAS, JAN -
TRAUGOTT, JOSEPH - Santa Fe curator of 20th century art at the NM Museum of Fine Arts & author of Pueblo Architecture and Modern Adobes: the Residential Designs of William Lumpkins. For more information, see the NM Index
TRAYLOR, HERBERT LEE -
retired school teacher, rancher who lived in the South
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
TRICE, RUTH M. -
TRIMBLE, STEPHEN - former NM paleontologist, editor of the Museum of Northern Arizona Press & author of many works including Blessed by the Light, Visions of the Colorado Plateau, From Out of the Rocks: Discovering Ancient Life in New Mexico, The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places, Navajo Pottery, Our Voices, Our Land, The People: Indians of the American Southwest, Sagebrush Ocean: a Natural History of the Great Basin & Talking With the Clay: the Art of Pueblo Pottery. He is also included in Getting Over the Color Green: Contemporary Environmental Literature of the Southwest. He also provided the photographs for JENNIFER DEWEY’s Finding Your Way: the Art of Natural Navigation. For information on his children’s title, please see the NM Children’s Authors list.
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+
TRONCOSO, YOLANDA -
TROYCE, RAQUEL - Guadalajara-born, Corrales author of Seducción,
Amor y Mentiras. For further information, please see the NM
Index.
TRUE, DAN - Albuquerque naturalist, former TV weatherman, & author of A Family of Eagles, Flying Free & Hummingbirds of North America
TRUETT, JOHN A. -
award-winning Artesia-native, who served with the US Air
Force in
TRUJILLO, CARLA - Las Vegas-born, northern California-raised, San Francisco area administrator in diversity- education & advocacy at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the editor of the anthology, Chicana Lesbians: the Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About*, which won a Lambda Book Award & the Out/Write Vanguard Award in 1992 & Living Chicana Theory*, which is widely used in college classrooms. What Night Brings is her first novel; which has won awards from the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund, the Mármol Prize, & Writers at Work, & it has NM links. For more information, please see the NM Index.
TRUXILLO,
CHARLES A. -
contributor to History of Hope: the African American Experience in
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
TSINAJINNIE, ANDY - Navajo musician, muralist, painter, creator of folk
art sculptures & illustrator of the children’s titles, Black Mountain
Boy: a Story of the Boyhood of John Honie, by Vada Carlson & GARY WITHERSPOON; Denetsosie,
by Broderick H. Johnson; Peetie, The Pack
Rat, And Other Desert Stories by Van Clark & Shush'ma
by Elizabeth M. Lauritzen. He also illustrated the adult title, Navajo
Biographies by Virginia Hoffman & Broderick H. Johnson. For
more information, please see the NM Index.
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
TUCKER, LISA - Missouri-raised, now Santa Fe wife & mother who has toured the Midwest with a jazz band, taught both math & writing, computer programmer, book reviewer, essayist & novelist of the acclaimed, multilayered, suspenseful family drama, The Song Reader, which is set in small-town Missouri. Shout Down the Moon, her 2nd novel, is set in the world of jazz musicians & is both satisfying, gripping & deft. For more information, please see the NM Index.
TUCKER, NITA -
TUCKER, TOBA PATO -
TULENKO, PAUL -
TUNSTALL, JOHN HENRY - English-born, Lincoln County War participant & author of Life and Death of John Henry Tunstall
TURKLE, BRINTON -
TURNER, DAVID - former
director of
TURNER, FREDERICK -
TURNER, LOUISE -
TURNER, PAULINE H. - UNM professor, parenting expert, & co-author of Children and Their Families in New Mexico
TURNER, ROBERT S. -
TURRIETTA, CECILE -
TUSA, TRICIA
- Houston-born & raised, now
Santa Fe author of many beloved picture books, including Bunnies In My Head,
Chicken, The Family Reunion, Libby's New Glasses, Maebelle’s
Suitcase, Miranda & Stay Away From the Junkyard. She’s also the illustrator of Avi’s The End of the Beginning: Being the Adventures of
a Small Snail (& an Even Smaller Ant), Steven Kroll’s Loose Tooth,
Mem Fox’s The Magic Hat & Jacquelyn Mitchard’s Starring Prima!: the Mouse of the Ballet Jolie, among many others. She’s been an art therapist with
learning-disabled & emotionally disturbed children, AIDS patients, &
psychiatric-care patients at hospitals including
TUTTLE, HOWARD N. - Albuquerque Chair of the Philosophy Department at UNM & author of Fire Night: a Story of Pompeii
TWEIT, SUSAN J. - former
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
TWITCHELL, RALPH EMERSON -
early 20th century vice president of the New Mexico Historical
Society & author of The City Different: Descriptive Guide to Santa Fe
& Vicinity, The Conquest of Santa Fe, 1846, co-author of History
& Civics of New Mexico, The History of the Military Occupation of the
Territory of New Mexico from 1846 to 1851 by the Government of the United
States, Leading Facts of New Mexican History, Old Santa Fe: the
Story of New Mexico's Ancient Capital, The Palace of the Governors: the
City of Santa Fe, Its Museums & Monuments & The Spanish Archives
of New Mexico. He is also included in
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
TYLER, HAMILTON A. - former New Mexican, now California anthropological author of Pueblo Animals and Myths, Pueblo Birds and Myths & Pueblo Gods and Myths. He is also included in The Serpent’s Tongue
UDALL, JAY -
UDALL, SHARYN R. -
UDALL, STEWART L. - former U.S. Secretary of the Interior, under President Kennedy, father of Tom Udall (NM's US Representative), Santa Fe author of Forgotten Founders: Rethinking the History of the Old West, Majestic Journey: Coronado’s Inland Empire, Myths of August: a Personal Exploration of Our Tragic Cold War Affair With the Atom, Quiet Crisis and the Next Generation & To the Inland Empire: Coronado and Our Spanish Legacy. For more information, please see the NM Index.
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, 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. For more information, see the NM Index.
ULMER, MARI - long-time
ULMER, SARAH D. - Tucumcari-area rancher, poet & author who is included in New Mexico In Verse
UNDERHILL,
J.S. (JOHN S.) - novelist of Simone
& Harry: a Love Story* & Travis & Muldoon: Adventures on the
UNGAR,
BEVERLY -
UNGNADE, HERBERT - Los Alamos National Laboratory chemist & author of Guide to the New Mexico Mountains
UNSER, BOBBY -
USNER, CAROL - northern NM author who is included in Las Mujeres Hablan
USNER, DON J. - Embudo-born, Los Alamos & Chimayo-raised photographer & author of his family’s story of life in northern NM: Benigna's Chimayó: Cuentos From the Old Plaza, New Mexico Route 66 on Tour: Legendary Architecture from Glenrio to Gallup & Sabino’s Map: Life in Chimayo’s Old Plaza. For more information, see the NM Index.
UYEMOTO, HOLLY -
Japanese-American novelist who lives in
VALDES-RODRIGUEZ, ALISA -
VALLEY-FOX, ANNE -
long-time
VALLO, LAWRENCE JONATHAN - Jemez/Acoma Pueblo author who is included in The Serpent’s Tongue. For information on his children’s novel, please see the New Mexican Children’s Authors list.
VAN ALST, RANDELL S. -
VAN ARSDALL, ANNE -
VAN CLEVE, BARBARA -
VAN DRESSER, PETER -
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. For further information, please see the NM
Index.
VAN GIESON, JUDITH -
VAN HULSTEYN, PEGGY - Santa Fe author of several titles, including Sleeping With Literary Lions: the Booklover’s Guide to Bed and Breakfasts, Mind Your Own Business: a Guide for Successful Women & two novels, Diary of a Santa Fe Cat & Vanity in Washington
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. For more information, please
see the NM Index & see also ELIZABETH COHEN
VAN VALEN, JULIE - Belen
co-chair of the
VANCE,
WILLIAM E. - former
VANETTEN,
TERESA - author of Dead Kachina Man, an intriguing NM
mystery
see also TERESA PIJOAN
VARELA, MARIA -
VARDEMAN, ROBERT E. -
VARGAS,
VARGAS, KIKA - Taos-born poet & short story author, who is included in Cuentos Chicanos (1984 ed.)
VARJABEDIAN, CRAIG -
VASQUEZ, DORA ORTIZ - northern NM author of The Enchanted Dialogue of Loma Parda and Cañada Bonita & Enchanted Temples of Taos: My Story of Rosario
VASQUEZ,
VÁSQUEZ, JANE ATKINS - NM co-editor of Remembering Presbyterian Mission in the Southwest: 25th Anniversary of the Menaul Historical Library. For more information, please see the NM Index.
VASQUEZ, ROBERT - local author of At the Rainbow: Poems
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, PABLITA (TSE TSAN "GOLDEN DAWN") - renowned Santa Clara Pueblo artist, author of Old Father Story Teller, illustrator of Fables of Indian Dances, Fables of Tewa Indian Dances & a northern NM Living Treasure. She’s also the mother of HELEN HARDIN & the great-aunt of MICHELLE TSOSIE SISNEROS. For more information, see the NM Index.
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.)
VERCHINSKI, STEFAN -
former National Park Service Ranger;
VERDE, KAYCE -
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. For more information, see the NM Index.
VERSACE, CANDELORA - Santa Fe co-author of Your Body Knows Best: the Revolutionary Eating Plan That Helps You Achieve Your Optimal Weight & Energy Level for Life; the founding editor of the review quarterly Southwest Book Views, which in its two-year existence has broadly extended the reception of Southwest writers well beyond the borders of the region; & winner of one of PEN New Mexico’s first annual Literary Awards to individuals who have contributed to literary & journalistic excellence. For more information, please see the NM Index.
VERTIKOFF, ALEXANDER - Tijeras photographer of Greene & Greene: Masterworks & Weird Rooms. For more information, please see the NM Index.
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
VESTAL, STANLEY (CAMPBELL, WALTER STANLEY) - Santa Fe Rhodes Scholar, professor of English at
the University of Oklahoma, a noted authority on the 19th century west &
author of The Book Lover’s Southwest: a Guide to Good Reading, History
of the Tipi, Kit Carson: the Happy Warrior of the Old West, The
Old Santa Fe Trail & Sitting Bull, Champion of the Sioux: a
Biography. He’s also the novelist of the NM titles, 'Dobe
Walls; a Story of Kit Carson's Southwest* & Revolt on the Border,
set partially in
VICENTI, CARLSON - Apache author from Dulce, who is included in Neon Pow-Wow
VIERRA,
BRADLEY J. - Los Alamos National
Laboratory archaeologist & editor of The Late Archaic Across the
Borderlands*, a collection of 12 papers which synthesize research &
offer theoretical models to provide the most up-to-date picture of life from
3,000 to 1,500 years ago. The subject is
why human societies shifted from nomadic hunting & gathering to
agriculture. The Southwest is one of the
most fruitful areas in which to study this issue
VIGIL, ARNOLD - NM author
of Backtracks: Time Travels Through
VIGIL, BERNADETTE -
VIGIL, CLEOFES -
VIGIL, DONACIANO - NM’s
1st Hispanic governor & 2nd governor under the
VIGIL, J. RONALD - Española-born, former director of the NM Hispanic
Cultural Center, & contributor to New Mexico: Celebrating 400 Years of History (a single issue of Cobblestone: American History for Kids, May, 1998)
VIGIL, MAURILIO E. - NM
Highlands political science professor, author of Chicano Politics, Los
Patrones: Profiles of Hispanic Political Leaders in
New Mexico History, Hispanics of New Mexico: Essays on History and
Culture, & New Mexico Government and Politics. He is also a
contributor to The Contested Homeland, a Chicano History of
VIGIL, ROSALIE -
VILLAGRÁ, GASPAR
VILLANI, JOHN - Santa Fe director of communications for the Institute of American Indian Arts, free-lance writer, former Albuquerque Journal reporter, author of Irreverent Guides: Santa Fe & The 100 Best Small Art Towns in America: Discover Creative Communities, Fresh Air, & Affordable Living; & co-author of Interior Furnishing Southwest. For more information, see the NM Index.
VILLANUEVA, KAREN WILLIAMS - former Canadian, now Albuquerque author of nonfiction short works & poet who is included in This I Believe, edited by James Strecker*
VILLELA, LYNN B. - NM co-editor of New Mexico Prized Recipes from the Albuquerque Tribune’s Great Green Chili Cooking Classic
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
VINELLA, RAY -
VILLASEÑOR, DANIEL -
former
VON AUW, EMILIE -
VORHEES, DOROTHY LAWREY -
VUKELICH, DAN - longtime
WA-BA-QUE-LAA, W. - Jemez Pueblo artist & poet who's included in Ceremony of Brotherhood
WADA, HAKURO (KENJI) - Japanese American poet imprisoned during WWII at the Santa Fe & Fort Stanton Justice Department Camps, some of whose haiku can be can be found in May Sky: There Is Always Tomorrow p. 211
WAGNER, PAUL - an 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*.
WAGNER, SALLIE - founding
member of the Archeological Society of America, a fellow of the
WAIT, WALTER K. - field & laboratory
director of the Star Lake Project, affiliated with the Indian Cultural
Resources Assistance Program, with the National Park Service in Santa Fe &
co-editor of The San Juan Tomorrow: Planning for the Conservation of
Cultural Resources in the San Juan Basin & The Star Lake
Archaeological Project: Anthropology of a Headwaters Area of Chaco Wash, New
Mexico
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*. For more information, please see the NM Index.
WALDRUM, HAROLD JOE - NM artist & author of Ando En Cueros = (I Walk Stark-Naked)
WALKER, KAREN -
WALKER, LUCI ROSE - NM author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
WALKER, SAGE - former
WALKER, STEPHEN - English filmmaker,
writer & director of an Emmy Award-winning documentary on
WALL, DENNIS - northern NM photographer & author of Western National Wildlife Refuges: Thirty-Six Ecological Havens From California to Texas
WALLACE, LEW - Union general, during the Civil War, territorial governor of NM, who dealt with Billy the Kid & the Lincoln County War; & author of the Biblical novel, Ben Hur: a Tale of the Christ. For more information, see the NM Index.
WALLIS, MICHAEL - part-time Santa Fe resident, essayist included in En Divina Luz: the Penitente Moradas of New Mexico, co-author of Mankiller: a Chief & Her People, & author of Heaven's Window: a Journey Through Northern New Mexico, The Real Wild West: the 101 Ranch & the Creation of the American West & Route 66: the Mother Road. For more information, please see the NM Index.
WALTER, PAUL A.F. - Santa Fe newspaperman, co-editor of Land of Sunshine: a Handbook of the Resources, Products, Industries and Climate of New Mexico; & long-time editor of El Palacio & the New Mexico Historical Review
WALTERS, ANNA LEE - Pawnee/Otoe/Missouria author, educated in Santa Fe & who lives on the Navajo Reservation, nonfiction author, essayist, memoirist of Talking Indian: Reflections on Survival and Writing, short story author, editor of Neon Pow-Wow, & novelist of Ghost Singer, among other titles. More information on her can be found in Earth Power Coming, Growing Up Native American, Here First, Reinventing the Enemy’s Language, Remembered Earth, Talking Leaves: Contemporary Native American Short Stories, & Walking the Twilight II. For more information, see the New Mexican Children’s Authors list & the NM Index.
WALTERS, GERTRUDE - Canoncito Navajo author & poet included in Neon Pow-Wow
WALTERS, HARRY - Navajo
painter, staff artist at the
WALTERS, JANICE F. - local poet who is included in Southwest Potpourri*
WALTERS,
WALTRIP, LELA & RUFUS - Artesia public school teachers, & auuthors of articles, poems, short stories, & Southwestern nonfiction, including Artesia: Heart of the Pecos. For more information, please see the NM Children’s Authors bibliography
WANEK, CATHERINE - Kingston, NM photographer, experienced straw bale builder, producer & director of the Building With Straw video series, author of The New Strawbale Home* & co-editor of The Art of Natural Building: Design, Construction, Resources
WARD, ALBERT E. - author of Navajo
Graves: an Archaeological Reflection of Ethnographic Reality, co-compiler
& editor of Archaeological Investigations At Los Esteros
Reservoir, Northeastern
WARLOE, CONSTANCE -
part-time
WARM DAY, JONATHAN - Taos Pueblo artist & author of Taos Pueblo Painted Stories, presents a slice of life as it used to be: following his people through the four seasons in story & art with his intricate & brilliantly colored original paintings.
WARNER, EDITH -
WARNER, JACK - NM author
who spent 30 years with United Press International in
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. For further information, see the NM Index.
WARREN, CHRIS R. see DORIAN DODSON
WARREN, NANCY HUNTER - Santa Fe researcher at the Laboratory of Anthropology, photographer, author of New Mexico Style: a Source Book |of Traditional Architectural Details & Villages of Hispanic New Mexico. For additional information, see the NM Index.
WASERMAN, MANFRED -
WASHBURN,
O. A. - Chama rural schoolteacher,
forest ranger in the Carson National Forest, rancher in Chama, free-lance
writer, regular outdoor columnist for Santa
Fe New Mexican & novelist of Highhorse*, set in Tierra Amarilla
WASOWSKI, ANDY & SALLY -
he is a freelance writer & broadcast producer, she is a professional
landscape designer & both are
WATCHEMPINO, LAURA - Albuquerque Acoma Pueblo poet & journalist, who is included in Remembered Earth: an Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature
WATERS, BARBARA -
part-time
WATERS, FRANK - popular, critically acclaimed, Taos author 5-times-nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature, novelist & historian of, among others, Masked Gods, People of the Valley, Pumpkin Seed Point, The Woman at Otowi Crossing (the novelized story of Edith Warner & the Manhattan Project), The Yogi of Cockroach Court & his memoirs, Of Time and Change. He is also included in Literary New Mexico. For more information, see the NM Index & for more information on his novels, see the NM Fiction bibliography.
WATSON-JONES, VIRGINIA - Capitan co-author of Capitan, New Mexico, 1900-2000, Home of Smokey Bear, the Living Symbol.* For more information, please see the NM Index.
WATTERSON, BILL - Ohio-born cartoonist who lived in New Mexico in the late 1980s, most well-known for his Calvin & Hobbes cartoon strips & books, which include: Calvin and Hobbes, The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book, The Days Are Just Packed, Essential Calvin and Hobbes, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes, Scientific Progress Goes "Boink", Weirdos From Another Planet!, & Yukon Ho!: a Calvin and Hobbes Collection. For further information, please see the NM Index.
WATTS, JOHN - 18-year-old who spent seven months in Santa Fe just before the Civil War & who kept a journal of his time in: Adios Nuevo Mexico: the Santa Fe Journal of John Watts in 1859. For a review of his book, please see the NM Index.
WEBB, LEE -
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
WEBER, MARK -
WEBER, ROBERT J. -
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. For more information, see the NM Index & Multicultural Southwest: a Reader.
WEIGLE, RICHARD DANIEL - part-time Santa Fe resident, retired president of St. John's College in Maryland for 31 years, who opened the 2nd campus in Santa Fe, president emeritus of the college & author of The Colonization of a College, a history of Saint John's College, in Santa Fe
WEINBERG,
FLORENCE BYHAM - NM-born, retired
professor of French & Spanish at Trinity University, in San Antonio, &
novelist of Apache Lance, Franciscan Cross* & The Storks of La Caridad*, well-written & throughly
researched historical novels
WEINBERG,
JULIE BEHREND - studied organic
horticulture & agriculture at
WEISHAUS, JOEL -
WEISMAN,
JOHN - Virginia novelist perhaps
best-known for his engrossing Rogue Warrior novels, full of insider knowledge,
& also the author of Jack in the Box, which includes the character
of Ed Howard, the Santa Fe ex-CIA agent who worked for the NM Legislative
Finance Committee, & later defected to Russia. For further information, please see the NM
Index.
WEISS, JOSEPH E. - author of Sunbelt Migration & its Effects
Upon the Growth & Development of a Southwest Community - Rio Rancho
WEISSBARTH,
FRANK D. - an Assistant Attorney
General for the State of
WEISSKOPF, VICTOR -
Manhattan Project physicist, chairman of
WEISSMUELLER, JUDITH ELFRINK -
WELCH, JAMES ALLEN - Ruidoso historical novelist of The River Ran Between Them*, set during the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
WELLS, MARY ANN -
WELLS, STEVEN G. - co-editor of
WELSOME, EILEEN - former Albuquerque
Tribune Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter & author of Plutonium Files:
WENDER, LEON - author of the children’s picture book, The Little Brown Roadrunner
WERTHEIMER, LINDA -
WEST,
CYNTHIA - Santa Fean well known for
her visionary realist paintings, poet, photographer, digital imaging artist,
potter & author of the poetry collections: For Beauty Way*, 1000
Stone Buddhas* & Rainbringer*
WEST, DOUG - NM serigraph artist & author of the Serigraphs of Doug West
WEST, KATHLEENE - an
associate professor of English at NMSU, award-winning author of seven books,
including the poetry collections, The Farmer's Daughter*, Plainswoman:
Her First Hundred Years* & Water Witching*. She is also included
in Leaning Into the Wind & Woven on the Wind: Women Write About
Friendship in the Sagebrush West, p. 6. She lived two years in
WESTBROOK, ROBERT -
WESTPHALL, VICTOR -
former
WETHERILL,
WHEELWRIGHT, MARY CABOT -
founder of the
WHIDDEN, MARY BESS -
WHIDDON, CAROL -
WHITAKER, KATHLEEN -
director of the
WHITE, AURORA LUCERO see AURORA LUCERO-WHITE LEA
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
WHITE, PAUL - Artesia owner of Blanco Engineering & author of Blossoms of Steel*. For more information, see the NM Index.
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. -
WHITE, VICTOR -
WHITE LEA, AURORA LUCERO see AURORA LUCERO-WHITE LEA
WHITEFORD, ANDREW HUNTER "BUD" -
WHITELEY, H. ELLEN - Guadalupita veterinarian & author of Understanding and Training Your Cat or Kitten & Understanding and Training Your Dog or Puppy
WHITETHORNE, BAJE -
WICKSTROM, RICHARD - contemporary art curator, president of Lightworks of Santa Fe, & photographer who is included in The Essential Landscape: the New Mexico Photographic Survey
WIDDISON, JEROLD G. -
City of
WIDGER, KATY -
Corrales-raised, now,
WIDGREN, BOB - founder
& owner of
WIELAND, LIZA
-
WIGGINS, WALT - Ruidoso
& Santa Fe photojournalist & author of books on horse-racing, NM
history & artists' biographies: Alfred Morang,
a Neglected Master, Juan Dell, the First Lady of Western Bronze, Lincoln,
New Mexico As It Was One Day, New Mexico Cockleburs and Cow Chips, William
Lumpkins: Pioneer Abstract Expressionist & Wiggins:
a Thirty-Year Retrospective
WILDE, DAVID -
author of The Life & Times of Commander 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
WILDER, RICHARD -
WILES, RICHARD S. - author of Rio Rancho, New Mexico: a Record of
Progress
WILEY, CHARLES -
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. -
WILLIAMS, BETT -
WILLIAMS,
CORTEZ - contributor to History of Hope: the African American Experience
in
WILLIAMS, ERNESTINE CHESSER - NM co-author of Treasures of History, v. 2:
WILLIAMS, GARTH - popular Santa Fe children's author of The Chicken Book & The Little House Trivia Book; & illustrator of many classic children’s picture books by authors such as Byrd Baylor, Margaret Wise Brown, Russell Hoban, JACK PRELUTSKY, George Selden, E.B. White, & Laura Ingalls Wilder. He also illustrated Grant Corner Inn Breakfast, Brunch & Beyond by Louise Stewart & Pat Walter
WILLIAMS, JERRY L. - UNM associate geography professor & editor of New Mexico In Maps
WILLIAMS, KAREN - spent time with Army Military
Intelligence as an analyst. She worked with members of the 82nd Airborne
Division & Special Forces during her tours. She currently lives in NM &
is the author of a science
fiction-action-adventure-love story: Little Green Men, set in
NM.
WILLIAMS, MARTHA OLIVER - Artesia author of articles, stories, poems & Speaking to You of Grief*
WILLIAMS, O.W. (OSCAR WALDO) - NM author of his memoirs: Pioneer Surveyor, Frontier Lawyer & Waldo Williams: Artist and Chronicler of His Times In the Southwest
WILLIAMS, ROBIN - Santa Fe magazine columnist, conductor of design for non-designers workshops, & the author of The Little Mac Book, MacIntosh Basics, Non-Designers Design Book: Design & Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice & The Non-Designer's Web Book: an Easy Guide to Creating, Designing, & Posting Your Own Web Site. For more information, please see the NM Index.
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 & it’s 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 (filed in Fiction under title). For more information, please see the NM Index.
WILLIAMSON, JACK - Portales' award-winning, influential & prolific science fiction author, who is cited in the Oxford English Dictionary for inventing the words "terraforming" & "genetic engineering", & who has been writing for more than 60 years. His autobiography is Wonder's Child: My Life in Science Fiction. He is also included in Lord of the Fantastic: Stories in Honor of Roger Zelazny & The Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction and Fantasy. For more information, please see the NM Index & the NM Authors bibliographies
WILLINK, ROSEANN S. -
Navajo UNM faculty member & co-author of Weaving a World: Textiles and
the
WILLIS, JOSEPH S. - El Paso-born, long-time Albuquerque minister, interdenominational 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, dirrector 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, ALAN -
WILSON, ANN L. -
WILSON, CHRIS -
WILSON, FRED R. - black
WILSON, GRACE BARKER - Farmington resident, the first woman & the first living educator to be elected to the NM Education Hall of Fame, & poet who is included in Sandscript p. 89 & Turquoise Land
WILSON, JANE S. - former Los Alamos English high school teacher, former book editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists & co-author of Standing By and Making Do: Women of Wartime Los Alamos
WILSON, JOHN - Las Cruces former archaeologist for the Museum of NM, historian, professional consultant in historical & archaeological research, & author of the respected Lincoln County War history, Merchants, Guns and Money; editor of The Navajos in 1705: Roque Madrid's Campaign Journal & Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid as I Knew Them: Reminiscences of John P. Meadows; & compiler of When the Texans Came: Missing Records from the Civil War in the Southwest, 1861-1862. He was also a contributor to Prehistory & History in the Southwest. For more information, please see the NM Index.
WILSON, KEITH -
Clovis-born, Las Cruces poet of Lion’s Gate: Selected Poems, 1963-1986,
NMSU professor emeritus, twice-nominated for the National Book Award, who is
included in In Company: an Anthology of New
Mexico Poets After 1960 p. 88+, New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, Tierra:
Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico, Turquoise Land & Voices
From the Rio Grande. For more
information, see the NM Index
WILSON, KRISTEN WOOLF - NM singer, graphic artist, & author who is included in The Spirit That Wants Me
WILSON, LARRY -
WILSON, LEE -
WILSON, MALIN - former curator of Exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, now an art appraiser, & author who is included in From the Faraway Nearby: Georgia O’Keeffe as Icon
WILSON,
MARY REILLY - pseudonym of MARY REILLY,
WILSON, RACHEL -
WILSON, DR. ROBERT -
member of the
WILSON, ROBERT O. -
WILSON, SPENCER - Socorro professor of history at the NM Institute of Mining & Technology, past president of the Historical Society of New Mexico, author of several railroad histories, including Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad & he is included in Essays in Twentieth-Century New Mexico History
WILSON, WALLY -
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
WINKLER, GERSHON - Cuba, NM rabbi & author of many religious books, including Magic of the Ordinary: Recovering the Shamanic in Judaism, The Soul of the Matter: a Jewish-Kabbalistic Perspective on the Human Soul Before, During, and After "Life"* & The Way of the Boundary Crosser: an Introduction to Jewish Flexidoxy. For further information, please see the NM Index.
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
WINSTON, DAOMA - the pen name of Dee Strasberg,
part-time
WISE, JOE - Santa Fe cardiologist & novelist of Cannibal Plateau, based, in part, on the life of Alfred Packer, Colorado cannibal, which won the 1995 Southwest Writers Workshop award for Best Historical Novel; In the Moro, an award-winning novel set in southwestern Colorado & northern NM, based on the Fourth Fremont Expedition; & The Fish, a novel about the state penitentiary Medical Director, during the riots, a novel, based on fact. He is also the author of a travel book, If You Go: One Man’s Travels to Special Places in the American Southwest & Beyond. For more information, please see the NM Index.
WISEMAN, REGGE N. - NM archaeologist, co-editor of Jornada Mogollon Archaeology: Proceedings of the First Jornada Conference & contributor to The First 100 Years: Papers in Honor of the State & Local Archaeological Societies of New Mexico & Secrets of a City: Papers on Albuquerque Area Archaeology in Honor of Richard A. Bice
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
WITHERS,
WITHERSPOON, GARY - director of the Navaho
Curriculum Center at the Rough Rock Demonstration School, & author of Language
and Art in the Navajo Universe & Navajo Kinship & Marriage;
& co-author of the children’s books, Black Mountain Boy: a Story of the
Boyhood of John Honie, a Navajo story & Grandfather
Stories of the Navahos; he also co-authored White Metal Universe: Navajo
Silver from the Fred Harvey Collection.
WITKIN, JOEL-PETER -
WITT, DAVID L. - Taos art historian, curator of the Harwood Foundation, co-author of Spirit Ascendant: the Art & Life of Patrocino Barela, author of Modernists in Taos, From Dasburg to Martin, The Taos Artists: a Historical Narrative & Taos Moderns: Art of the New, winner of the Border Library Association's 1993 Southwest Book Award. For further information, please see the NM Index.
WITTICK, BEN - probably the most famous 19th century NM photographer who is profiled in Shadows on Glass: the Indian World of Ben Wittick & Southwest 1880 with Ben Wittick: Pioneer Photographer of Indian & Frontier Life. For more information, please see the NM Index
WITYNSKI, KAREN - with JOE P. CARR, former
WIZ KIDS, ARMIJO ELEMENTARY SCHOOL see
WIZ
KIDS OF OZ, LA MESA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL see LA
MESA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ALBUQUERQUE NM WIZ KIDS OF OZ
WOLCOTT, JANN ARRINGTON - 3rd-generation New Mexican who was raised on a cattle
ranch near the Mexican border, magazine writer & editor, her first novel
was Brujo, Seduced by Evil. It was
filmed as a USA Cable movie, starring Suzanne Somers. She recently wrote her
newest thriller, Deathmark*, & another title, Lakota
Land*. Her nonfiction includes the highly praised, Christmas Celebration:
WOLF, JUDITH - Lamy
co-publisher & editorial director of
WOLF, TOM - Taos ecologist for The Land Center, former college professor, husband of writer/photographer CHRISTINA NEALSON & author of In Fire's Way: A Practical Guide to Life in the Wildfire Zone & Near Horizons: a Weekender's Guide to Easy Getaways From Albuquerque. He also writes frequently for national publications such as the Los Angeles Times, the Seattle Times, Cross Country Skier, & Snow Country. For more information, please see the NM Index.
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,
& serves as a corporate consultant for the development of psychologically
based services. She is the co-author
with ROBERT J. MEYERS, of Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging,
Pleading, & Threatening. Please
see the NM Index for further information.
WOLFE, MARY ELLEN -
Albuquerque-raised, now program director of the
WOLFE, SWAIN - former New Mexican, now Montana novelist of The Parrot Trainer, a romance set in contemporary NM, involving an art dealer who finds a cache of Mimbres pottery, including one with a female parrot trainer who comes to life, & begs him to free her from the pot
WOLFERT, LELA BELLE - past president of
WOLFF, MARCIA - formerly a registered psychiatric nurse, now a counselor in domestic violence at the District Attorney’s Office & poet who is included in Another Desert: Jewish Poetry of New Mexico
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*
WOLKOFF, JUDIE - Montana & Idaho-raised,
WOOD, BETH - NM author of New Mexican Women Working for Change
WOOD, MARGARET -
WOOD, NANCY C. - Taos & Santa Fe photographer, poet, novelist of Thunderwoman, winner of a NEA fellowship, author of several excellent books on Pueblo life & religion, including Grass Roots People, Heartland New Mexico, Hollering Sun, Man Who Gave Thunder to the Earth, Many Winters: Prose and Poetry of the Pueblos, Taos Pueblo, & When Buffalo Free the Mountains. She is also included in Sisters of the Earth, p. 157+. For more information see the NM Index & the New Mexican Children’s Authors list.
WOOD, REBECCA THEURER -
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
WOOD, SUMMER - lives in the mountains of northern NM, where she makes a living designing & building small houses, & the author of Arroyo, set in fictional, tiny, Los Fuegos. It is a fierce, funny, and heartbreaking novel. For more information, please see the NM Index.
WOODHAM,
MARION - author of A History of
Presbyterian Hospital, 1908-1976: with an Update Through 1979
WOODHOUSE, CHARLES E. -
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 & a short story
collection, Wishes & Windmills*
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
WOODS, ANNIE - Española poet & teacher of creative writing & English at Northern NM Community College
WOODS, BETTY - long-time, local historian & travel author of 101 Men and Women of New Mexico: 101 Men and 101 Women Who Contributed to New Mexico's History, 101 Trips in the Land of Enchantment & Ghost Towns and How to Get to Them
WOODS, SHARON - Santa Fe owner of Woods Architects-Builders, Inc., historic preservationist & co-author of Santa Fe Houses & Santa Fe Style.
WOODS, STUART - part-time
WOODWARD, DOROTHY - UNM history
professor, major on the wing staff of the NM Civil Air Patrol & author of New Mexico: Land of Enchantment & The Penitentes of New Mexico. For further information, please see the NM
Index.
WOODY,
WOOLF, MARION see MARION MARGERY LAYNE
WORMSER,
RICHARD - Santa Fe winner of an Edgar from the Mystery
Writers of America, a Spur Award from the Western Writers of America, a
Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame; & author of Battalion
of Saints*, a Mormon novel set in NM, Drive East on 66*, a mystery
set partially in NM, The Invader*, a NM mystery & the nonfiction
work, Yellowlegs: the Story of the United States Cavalry. For information on his children’s title, see
the New Mexican Children’s Authors list.
WRIGHT, EDWARD -
WRIGHT, JAY - Albuquerque born & raised, now
WRIGHT, JOHN B. - professor of geography at NMSU, & Western Writers of America Spur award finalist, for Rocky Mountain Divide: Selling and Saving the West
WYACO, VIRGIL - Zuni tribal government official & author of A Zuni Life: a Pueblo Indian in Two Worlds. For more information, please see the NM Index.
WYLDER, MELDRUM K. - turn-of-the-century physician & author of Rio Grande Medicine Man. For more information, please see the NM Index.
WYLLER, ARNE - Royal Swedish Academy professor in astrophysics, Director of the Swedish Academy Solar Observatory in Capri & the Canary Islands, & now, Santa Fe author of The Planetary Mind
WYMAN, LELAND C. - Boston University professor emeritus, anthropologist,
scholar of the Navajo for more than 50 years, & author of Blessingway, The Mountainway
of the Navajo, Navaho Sandpainting: the Huckel Collection, The Red Antway of the Navaho, The Sacred Mountains of the
Navajo: in Four Paintings, The Sandpaintings of the Kayenta Navaho;
an Analysis of the Louisa Wade Wetherill Collection, Southwest Indian Drypainting & The Windways
of the Navaho. He
also wrote Navaho Indian Ethnoentomology with Flora L. Bailey & edited Beautyway: a
Navaho Ceremonial. For further
information, please see Navajo Religion & Culture: Selected Views:
Papers in Honor of Leland C. Wyman, edited by DAVID
M. BRUGGE & Charlotte J. Frisbie
WYNNE, LOUIS - Albuquerque clinical psychologist, Four Corners Regional Director of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry & Psychology. He was an Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology at the UNM School of Medicine, & Clinical Director of the NM State Hospital. He is the novelist of Deliver Us from Evil & co-author of Warm Logic: the Art of the Intuitive Lifestyle*, with CAROLYN KLINTWORTH. For more information, please see the NM Index.
YATES, LEO - NMSU family life specialist & contributor to New Mexico in Maps
YATES, STEVE - curator of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, editor of Essential Landscape: the New Mexico Photographic Survey & author of Betty Hahn: Photography or Maybe Not
YAZZIE, FLOYD D. - Navajo author included in Neon Pow-Wow
YAZZIE, GENEVIEVE - Navajo short story author, some of whose work can be found in Remembered Earth: an Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature
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 author of Kaleidoscopes: the Art of Mirrored Magic. For more information on him see the NM Index & the New Mexican Children’s Authors list.
YORK, FRED - cultural anthropologist
& contributor to The Star Lake Archaeological Project: Anthropology of a
Headwaters Area of Chaco Wash, New Mexico
YOUNG, JOANNE - Santa Fe poet who was a finalist in the Taos Poetry Circus Open Mike Slam, a winner in the Recursos Discovery competition, & is included in XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience
YOUNG, JOHN V. - former newspaper journalist, author of State Parks of New Mexico & Kokopelli: Casanova of the Cliff Dwellers
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. For more information, please see the NM Index.
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
YOUNIS, VINCENT -
YU, PEI-LIN - Albuquerque native, anthropologist & author of Hungry Lightning: Notes of a Woman Archaeologist in Venezuela
YUND, GLORIA SANCHEZ -
ZACKHEIM, MICHELE - former Santa Fe resident, novelist of Violette’s Embrace* & investigative author of Einstein’s Daughter: the Search for Lieserl. For more information, please see the NM Index.
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. For further information, please see the NM Index.
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. For more information, please see the NM Index.
ZEHLER, ANTONIA - Albuquerque children's illustrator & author of Two Fine Ladies Have a Tiff, a beginning reader about friendship
ZEILIK, MICHAEL - UNM astronomy 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
ZELAZNY, ROGER - renowned Santa Fe Hugo-winning author of complex & intelligent science fiction & fantasy novels, including Bridge of Ashes* (set in NM), A Dark Traveling (set partially in Santa Fe), Doorways In the Sand, Eye of Cat (which deals with a Navajo tracker & a shape-shifting extra-terrestrial), A Night In the Lonesome October, Nine Princes In Amber, Trumps of Doom (partially set in Santa Fe); Donnerjack (a virtual reality world) with JANE LINDSKOLD, & Wilderness with GERALD HAUSMAN. He is included in Good Old Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition, New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, Very Large Array: New Mexico Science Fiction & Fantasy, Wild Cards & edited The Williamson Effect. For more information, see the NM Index & the New Mexican Children’s Authors list.
ZIESELMAN, ELLEN - Santa Fe curator of education at the NM Museum of Fine Arts & author of Hand-Carved Marionettes of Gustave Baumann. For more information, please see the NM Index.
ZIMMER, STEPHEN - Philmont historian, director of museums, editor & compiler of For Good or Bad: People of the Cimarron Country & author of Philmont: a Brief History of a New Mexico Scout Ranch & Vision, Grace & Generosity: the Story of Waite & Geneva Phillips & the Philmont Ranch*. For more information, please see the NM Index.
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
ZIMMERMAN,
ROGER, Ph.D. - author of Kitchen’s
Opera House Gallup, New Mexico*, about the construction & inauguration
of the facility through its partial demise. Kitchen’s Opera House served a very
vital role in the early life of
ZOHN, HERSHEL - NMSU Professor Emeritus of Theater & author of his memoirs, All the World's a Stage
ZOLBROD, PAUL G. - Senior Curator at the Laboratory of Anthropology, co-author of Diné Bahane': the Navajo Creation Story, Weaving a World: Textiles and the Navajo Way of Seeing; & who is included in Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America
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* (sequel to Corey Lane) & Riders to Cibola, among others. His posthumously published novel, The Road to Santa Fe, is a contemporary political novel. For more information, see the NM Index.
ZOPF, DOROTHY R. - San Cristobal quilter & author of Surviving the Winter: the Evolution of Quiltmaking in New Mexico
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 -
ZUMWALT,
EVA - Eunice-born, Artesia-raised novelist of The
Bloody Sands*, a western set in Lincoln County & When the Heart
Remembers*, a romance set in Las Cruces.
For more information, please see the New Mexican Children’s Authors
bibliography
ZWINGER, SUSAN - formerly a museum curator in Santa Fe, now a Seattle-area artist, teacher, environmental activist, interpretive ranger for the National Park Service, & editor of Women in Wilderness: Writings & Photographs & is included in A Road of Her Own: Women's Journeys in the West.
With Thanks to my friends at the Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System
© Suzy Sultemeier, 1983-2005
