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).

Dr. Michelle J. Lanteri

Dr. Michelle J. Lanteri (opens in a new tab) is head curator at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center and is a former curator of collections at the Albuquerque Museum. In 2018, Lanteri collaboratively curated a site-specific exhibition, Wendy Red Star: The Maniacs (We’re Not The Best, But We’re Better Than The Rest) with the New Mexico State University Art Museum, and, in 2022, she published a book chapter in Visualizing Genocide: Indigenous Interventions in Art, Archives, and Museums (The University of Arizona Press). Michelle holds a PhD from the University of Oklahoma, an MA from New Mexico State University, and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Rapheal Begay (Diné), Spider Rock (Tseyi—Canyon de Chelly, Chinle, AZ) (detail), 2021. Digital photograph. Courtesy the artist.

A Diné Horizon

By Dr. Michelle J. Lanteri A horizon connects multiple planes of existence by way of light, and experiencing horizons—whether literal or metaphorical—is a commonality shared between beings. Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles, an exhibition which opens on July 16, 2023 at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, or O’gah’poh geh Owingeh (White Shell Water Place), on the traditional lands of the Tewa-speaking peoples, offers audiences immersion into connections between land and weaving through the themes of storytelling, identity, kinship, and community.