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.

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.

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.

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).

Rebecca Gomez

Rebecca Gomez is an independent art historian and curator specializing in Latin American and U.S. Latinx Art. With more than two decades of experience in museums, galleries, and cultural organizations, Rebecca seeks to bring together scholarship, curation, and community engagement to advance the arts. She is also a former curator at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico and has held curation and leadership titles at organizations including Mexic-Arte Museum in Austin, Texas and Groundworks New Mexico. Rebecca is also a researcher and writer who is published in journals including Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas (UNAM) and Hemisphere (University of New Mexico). Rebecca holds an MA in Art History and Criticism from the University of Texas at San Antonio.