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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CMarie Fuhrman

CMarie Fuhrman (opens in a new tab) is a multi-genre writer whose work is rooted in the Western landscape. She is the author of Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return, the poetry chapbook Camped Beneath the Dam, and co-editor of the influential anthologies Cascadia Field Guide and Native Voices. Her writing has been featured in Terrain.org, Emergence Magazine, Alta Magazine, Big Sky Journal and elsewhere. A passionate educator and community builder, Fuhrman serves as the Associate Director for Western Colorado University’s Graduate Program in Creative Writing, directs the Elk River Writers Workshop, and founded the Confluence Writing Community. She is also an award-winning columnist for the Inlander and host of Colorado Public Radio’s Terra Firma. A former Idaho Writer in Residence, she lives in the Salmon River Mountains where she spends her summers as a fire lookout.

Cara Romero, Sand & Stone, 2020. Photograph. 19 × 12 ¾ inches. © Cara Romero. Courtesy of the artist. All rights reserved.

A poem to acknowledge that the land itself — along with the people whose language, culture and religion were born of it — is rarely acknowledged

BY CMARIE FUHRMAN — CMarie Fuhrman is the author of Camped Beneath the Dam: Poems and co-editor of Cascadia: Art, Ecology, and Poetry, and Native Voices: Indigenous Poetry, Craft, and Conversations. She has published or forthcoming poetry and nonfiction in multiple journals and anthologies. CMarie is an award-winning columnist for the Inlander and Director of the Elk River Writers Workshop. She is Associate Director at Western Colorado University, where she teaches nature writing.