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).

David Meischen

David Meischen (opens in a new tab) is the author of Anyone’s Son, winner of the John A. Robertson Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters. A lifelong storyteller, Meischen has twice received the Kay Cattarulla Award for Best Short Story, also from the Texas Institute of Letters. Co-founder and managing editor of Dos Gatos Press, Meischen lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his husband—also his co-publisher and co-editor—Scott Wiggerman.

View looking up through the winding, orange and red sandstone walls of Antelope Canyon with a strip of bright blue sky above. [gen-ai]

Fall Poetry: Scott Wiggerman & David Meischen

Scott Wiggerman —Scott Wiggerman is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Leaf and Beak: Sonnets, and an editor of several volumes, including 22 Poems and a Prayer for El Paso, winner of a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award in 2020. “Canyon at Kasha-Katuwe” was previously published in Weaving the Terrain: 100-Word Southwestern Poems. Albuquerque: Dos Gatos Press, 2017. “Reveries While Walking the Mesa on the Hottest Day of the Year” was a Laureates' Choice Winner in the 2020 Maria W.