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).
Kéyah Keenan Henry (Diné)
Kéyah Keenan Henry (Diné) is a multimedia artist from Mariano Lake, NM. He is Salt clan, born for Towering House clan. His parents are Jennie DeGroat and the late Kenneth Bill Henry. He earned his BFA in Studio Arts from Northern Arizona University and will graduate this spring with an MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts. For twenty years, he worked as an auto body technician before returning to school to study art professionally. As an artist, Keyah weaves traditional Diné teachings with modernity to create contemporary, sustainable works of art. As a person in sobriety, he uses art as a catalyst to heal.