New Mexico Authors

AKA: Alisa Valdes. Author of many books, including The Dirty Girls Social Club and its sequel Dirty Girls on Top, and the Young Adult novel Haters. New York Times and USA Today bestselling author.

Born in Albuquerque, graduate of West Mesa High School. Degrees in atmospheric sciences. Author of A Guidebook To 'Breaking Bad' Filming Locations: Albuquerque as Physical Setting and Indispensable Character.

Born and raised in Colorado, B.S. from Colorado State University and a M.A. from UNM. Teacher in Santa Fe schools for 30 years. Playwright of musical productions. Composer of over 70 children's songs for teaching the culture, history, and geography of New Mexico in Spanish. Co-author, with Olivama Salazar de Valdez, of Life in Los Sauces.

Poet and writer; published in numerous anthologies and magazines. Author of several collections of poetry. Compiler/editor (with Ann Lacy) of several books of Federal Writers' Project documents involving New Mexico, including Outlaws & Desperados and Frontier Stories and Stories from Hispano New Mexico.

Albuquerque. Author of Ghosts in Reality : the unexplained truth about hauntings in our world today and Investigating Haunted New Mexico.

Albuquerque. Born & raised in Canada; Bachelor's Degree in Accounting. Administrator of the Black Creators HQ; recipient of a Highlights Foundation Muslim Storytellers Fellowship. Author of the children's book Fatima Tate Takes the Cake, involving a Black Muslim-American teenager and set in Albuquerque.

Northern New Mexico. Retired journalist. Writer of articles for periodicals including New Mexico magazine. Author of several works including the novel Thunder Prime Hunter’s Light, the mystery Blind Curve, and several chapbooks of poetry.

Albuquerque. Illustrator, sculptor, fine artist. Recipient of numerous awards for advertising. Author of numerous novels including the Scott Moss detective series. Author / illustrator of children's books including the Crocka Dog series and the What Makes A...? series.

Grew up in Albuquerque. Author of People I've Met From the Internet.

Albuquerque private pilot and former banker. Author of several novels including Albuquerque.

(1941-2021) Albuquerque area author, best known for her two mystery series: the series featuring Albuquerque lawyer Neil Hamel, and the series about Claire Reynier, archivist and rare-books expert with the University of New Mexico's Center for Southwest Research.

Albuquerque. Petroleum geologist. Taught high school; contractor to Kirtland Air Force Base. Author of Old Forty-Four : a historical and geological excursion over New Mexico's old Route 44 (now part of US-550) and Camps and campsites of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in New Mexico 1933-1942.

Santa Fe. Author of numerous autobiographical works and the mystery The Art of Murder set in Santa Fe. Author of several books about Santa Fe cat Vanity (with commentaries on "Santa Fe Style") including Diary of a Santa Fe Cat and The Kitten Invasion. Author of Sleeping with Literary Lions: The Booklover's Guide to Bed and Breakfasts and Mind your own business: A guide for successful women.

Albuquerque. Author of numerous novels; some gay/lesbian interest, primarily science fiction including Star Girl. Also writes as Alex VanDamn.

Associate professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UNM. Author of several works including Algún día te cuento las cosas que he visto and Luego el silencio and One day I'll tell you the things I've seen : stories.

Albuquerque. Degrees in Physics and Materials Engineering from UNM, worked at Sandia Labs. Prolific science fiction and fantasy author. Writes under a variety of pen names, including westerns as Karl Lassiter and Jackson Lowry. Author / co-author of numerous science fiction, fantasy, and mystery series including the Cenotaph Road series and the BioWarriors series; many stand-alone novels, some for young people. Writer in several franchises including Star Trek, God of War, and BattleTech. Co-founder in 1969 of Bubonicon, Albuquerque's annual science fiction convention.

Also writes as Jennifer DeAnna. Degrees in English and Educational Leadership from UNM; ESL and middle school reading teacher. Podcaster. Creator of the Her Vision, Her Mission platform to encourage and empower women to live the life they truly desire. Author of 7 Steps to Being a Savvy Single Mom. Author of the McKinley Turlington Applebee series for children.

MFA in Creative Writing / Poetry from University of New Mexico. Editor of Mas Tequila Review. Author of Guernica, Revisited.

Santa Fe. Teacher; photographer on several books about New Mexico including En Divina Luz : the Penitente moradas of New Mexico and Landscape Dreams, a New Mexico portrait and Ghost Ranch and the Faraway Nearby.

Northern New Mexico, graduate of UNM. Painter, author. Noted Chicana activist. Founded the newspaper, El Grito del Norte. Pursued journalism worldwide. Author of a collection of articles, Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito Del Norte and The Women of La Raza: An Epic History of Chicana / Mexican-American Peoples and Cuentos & Poetry.

City Councilor in Las Cruces. Outdoorsman and conservationist. Co-founder of the New Mexico Outdoor Equity Fund. Board member for the Outdoor Alliance and the New Mexico Division of Outdoor Recreation. Contributor to First & Wildest : The Gila Wilderness at 100.

Albuquerque. Author of the children's book Evan and the Skygoats.

Born and raised in Hobbs, now of Albuquerque. Railroad enthusiast. Art director for New Mexico Magazine. Co-author (with Robert Strein and C. Fenton Richards Jr.) of Santa Fe: the Chief Way.

Attended UNM School of Medicine. Author of Strawberry Roan: growing up in the shadow of Hermit's Peak about growing up on a horse ranch in northern New Mexico.

Pen name of Silver City author Lydia Udero-Vaughan.

Longtime employee with the Spanish Colonial Department of the Museum of New Mexico, specializing in conservation of objects including bultos and altar screens. Consultant to various museums for installations of exhibits of New Mexican materials. Author of Furniture of Spanish New Mexico.

AKA: Tse Tsan, Golden Dawn. (1918-2006) Santa Clara Pueblo. Attended St. Catherine's Indian School in Santa Fe, then accepted to Dorothy Dunn's Santa Fe Studio Art School. Noted painter, with pieces in many permanent national collections; mother to painter Helen Hardin. Many awards and honors, including the New Mexico Governor's Award and being named a Santa Fe Living Treasure. Best known book: Old Father Story Teller.

Albuquerque. Member of the Jicarilla Apache Tribe. Attended UNM. Featured in Neon Pow-wow : new Native American voices of the Southwest.

Retired educator from Raton Public Schools. Co-author, with Patricia H. Walsh of Sugarite Coal Camp for the Images of America series.

Albuquerque. Chilean poet who came to New Mexico in 1937. Author of numerous books of poetry in Spanish, which his wife Maria translated, including Aventuras de don Quijote de La Mancha: Poesías de Lautaro Vergara and Two Pathways and other poems of the Southwest.

Santa Fe. Award-wining freelance journalist, with numerous articles about Santa Fe's arts and culture in local and regional publications. Founding editor of the Southwest Book View book journal; winner of a PEN New Mexico award for Exceptional Dedication to Fostering Writers of the Southwest. Author of Traveling Light: a novelita

Santa Fe. Curator of the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture / Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico. Editor of A River Apart : the pottery of Cochiti & Santo Domingo pueblo. Author of Indian Country : the art of David Bradley.

Apache, from Dulce New Mexico. Featured in Neon Pow-wow : new Native American voices of the Southwest.

Santa Fe. Potter / clay artist, teacher of creative writing. Author of the novel The Balloon Affair.

Archaeologist for Los Alamos National Laboratory. Has directed excavations for the Museum of New Mexico, including a probable Coronado expedition campsite near Bernalillo. Editor of From Mountaintop to Valley Bottom : understanding past land use in the northern Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico. Contributor to The Peopling of Bandelier: new insights from the archaeology of the Pajarito Plateau.

Born in northern New Mexico. Attended schools in Colorado and California, and New Mexico Highlands University. Teacher of sociology, Spanish, and music. Author of several works including The Ugly Anglo: An Analysis of White Extremism in Latin-American Relations and The Coming of the Gringo [Ay vienen los gringos] and the Mexican American revolt; an analysis of the rise and decline of Anglo-America, U.S.A.

Santa Fe native. Journalist. Longtime editor for New Mexico Magazine. Author of Backtracks: Time Travels Through New Mexico and Santa Fe different : 22 years and all I got was a cheeseburger : the ¡Órale! Columns, a collection of his columns for the Albuquerque Journal North.

Albuquerque, born near Espanola. Noted teacher of embroidery. Author of Colcha Embroidery.

(1946-2018) Guadalupita New Mexico. Ph.D in English, taught at various institutions including Highlands University and University of New Mexico. Inducted into the New Mexico Folklore Society Roll of Honor. Author / co-author of several works including Las Vegas Grandes on the Gallinas 1835-1985 and 1845 Census of Las Vegas, New Mexico.

Professor in the Department of Political Science at Highlands University, Las Vegas, specializing in Chicano / Latino politics and the politics of New Mexico. Contributor to The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico. Author / co-author of numerous works including Los Patrones: Profiles of Hispanic Political Leaders in New Mexico History and New Mexico Government and Politics and Hispanics of New Mexico: Essays on History and Culture.

AKA: Mike Vigil. Born and raised in northern New Mexico. Degree in Criminology from New Mexico State University. Served as DEA Chief of International Operations, accomplishments featured in numerous books. Author of several books including Deal and Afghan Warlord and The Land of Enchantment Cartel.

Research professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, served as director of the Language Learning Center at UNM. Recipient of research awards and grants as an investigator for the Linguistic Atlas and Archive of the Spanish of New Mexico and Southern Colorado from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Co-author with Garland D. Bills of The Spanish Language of New Mexico and Southern Colorado: A Linguistic Atlas.

Albuquerque. Writes articles for area periodicals.

(1555-1620) Captain and legal officer in the Onate expedition of 1598 that first colonized Santa Fe. Author of Historia de la Nueva México published in 1610, believed to be the earliest history published in North America.

Department of English Language and Literature at UNM. PhD in American Studies with concentrations in race, class and ethnicity; research and published writings focus on the cultural and literary history of the Southwest, ethnic American literature and Chicana/o studies. Author of Gender and Place in Chicana/o Literature: Critical Regionalism and the Mexican American Southwest.

Las Cruces. Poet. Has taught at New Mexico State University and served as a director of La Sociedad para las Artes. Author of several collections of poetry including Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream.

AKA: Chef Johnny Vee. Santa Fe chef and cooking instructor; director and creator of the Las Cosas Cooking School. Food and dining editor for The Santa Fean. Contributor to La Fonda Then & Now. Author of Cooking with Johnny Vee: International Cuisine with a Modern Flair.

Born and raised in Crownpoint New Mexico. Author of several novels including the noted Young Adult novel The Brothers Torres, set in New Mexico.

Dorothy Lawrey Vorhees. Albuquerque. Watercolorist, teacher in the arts. Exhibitor/jurist in many area art shows. Author of Doorways of New Mexico, with sketches of buildings across the state.

New Mexico film critic; author of the novel, The Lumière Affair : a novel of Cannes.

Santa Fe. Physician. Author of Stranger in New Mexico : a doctor's journey, 1951-1986 about his many years working with the New Mexico Department of Public Health. Author of the novel Double Concerto, about a Holocaust survivor.