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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 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 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 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).
Dr. Frances H. Harlow (opens in a new tab) (1928-2016) was a physicist in the Theoretical Division of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. In addition to his achievements in science, he had an international reputation as a specialist in pueblo ceramics. A research associate at the School for Advanced Research and the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, he studied the stylistic evolution of historic pueblo pottery, about which he wrote seven books. He was also an artist whose paintings are included in collections around the world.
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I Have Known: Maria Martinez BY FRANCES H. HARLOW The pueblo nearest Los Alamos is San Ildefonso. First occupied in the 1300s, the village is situated north of the highway linking Los Alamos and Pojoaque. There is a large open plaza with a circular kiva in the center. Enormous cottonwood trees flank some of the adobe houses facing the plaza, where ceremonial dances take place.
