Contributors

For over a century, El Palacio has been a forum for voices exploring New Mexico’s art, archaeology, history, and landscape. Explore the writers, photographers, historians, and scientists whose perspectives have defined the magazine’s pages—past and present.

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Arthur Sze

Arthur Sze is the current U.S. Poet Laureate. Sze is a poet, translator, and editor. He is the author of twelve books, including Into the Hush, Sight Lines, and others. Sze’s poems have been translated into fifteen languages, and he is the recipient of the National Book Award among many other honors. He lives in Santa Fe.

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Deborah Jackson Taffa

Deborah Jackson Taffa is a citizen of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo. Her memoir Whiskey Tender was a 2024 National Book Award Finalist and was longlisted for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Taffa serves as the director of the MFA in creative writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

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Cara Romero

Cara Romero is an award-winning contemporary fine art photographer. An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Romero’s expansive oeuvre has been informed by formal training in film, digital, fine art, and commercial photography. She maintains a studio in Santa Fe, regularly participates in Native American art fairs, and was featured in PBS’ Craft in America (2019).

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Katie Doyle

Katie Doyle is the Associate Curator of Art and Special Projects at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Over the last four years, she has mounted exhibitions on Rick Dillingham (2023) and Ken Price (2024) in addition to surveys of late-twentieth century New Mexico art. Doyle also manages a program for emerging artists at the Vladem Contemporary titled the Window Box Project

Since receiving her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2017, Doyle has served multiple arts organizations across the United States and abroad, including The Art Institute of Chicago, SITE Santa Fe, and the Bahrain National Museum. Between 2019 and 2021, she was an integral part of the State of New Mexico’s rural and tribal museum outreach program, Wonders on Wheels. From 2017 to 2022, Doyle ran an alternative space for emerging LGBTQ+ and BIPoC artists in New Mexico called Trapdoor Projects. These experiences shaped Doyle’s curatorial interests and vision, which deal almost exclusively with emerging artists, social justice, material experimentation, and radical accessibility to the arts.