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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).
Michael Lorenzo Lopez is the cofounder of Vecinos Artist Collective, a collaborative of New Mexican artists, enjoys tinkering with what it means to form relationships. Interactions such as stringing a 300-foot garland of handmade paper flowers through a stranger’s second-story window take on fabricated high stakes. He currently lives in the hand-built aluminum camper used in Love Letter to the World, which was commissioned by the City of Albuquerque’s InSight: Temporary Public Art installation initiative.
![Typed letter dated September 25, 2015, from Patricio to Maria Jose Urbina Estrada, expressing gratitude for support and friendship during a difficult time. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Love-Letters_28-400x225.jpg)
Love Letter to the World, a social-art project, was performed at The PASEO art festival in Taos in September 2015 and in Santa Fe at Everywhere Night Market in August 2015. The project included a letter-writing component and a performance in which Edie Tsong broadcast these letters to the world via bullhorn from atop a 12-foot ladder. [wonderplugin_slider id="81"]
