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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).
Scott Robinson served as associate professor and director of the School of Art at Stephen F. Austin State University and dean of humanities at Tarrant County College in Fort Worth where he retired in 2020. Scott now lives in Albuquerque and is writing a book about hiking the Great North Road in honor of his childhood friend Scott Tsoodle.
By Scott Robinson The North Road has been on my backpacking bucket list for years. Only one person, adventurer-journalist Craig Childs, documented walking the entire length of the North Road nearly two decades ago in House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest. When I learned that my childhood friend, Scott Tsoodle, had recently passed away, I began making plans to hike the North Road as a way of saying goodbye.
