We are the Aspen Song Kids from Taos Pueblo, a beautiful place in Northern New Mexico. Our mission is to preserve our culture, our heritage, our tradition, and our language. […]

William “Bill” Bauman is a highly regarded communications professional, as well as an established speaker, trainer, and writer. Prior to starting his own business and communication consulting company, MxCom, in […]

Bonnie Lee Black is the author of the memoir Somewhere Child (Viking Press, 1981; now available as an eBook), which was instrumental in the creation of the National Center for […]

Author Cindy Brown has been the hiking columnist for The Taos News for the past four years. She is the author of trail guides for bed and breakfasts and wrote […]

Ed Cardenas, LISW, is a writer, educator, counselor, and musician. He received his master’s degree in social work from the University of Denver and lives in Taos, New Mexico. Ed has […]

Lorraine Lener Ciancio’s poems and essays have been published in numerous anthologies and literary reviews. She wrote for a weekly newspaper’s arts section and published articles in magazines on subjects […]

Elizabeth Cunningham has long found innovative ways to combine her passion for research and writing with her love affair with the American West. Born in Denver, Liz grew up in western […]

Steve Fox was born in Washington, D.C. to two University of Maryland students—his dad a student in his grad student mom’s Spanish class. They moved to Texas where Steve attended […]

Born in Yokohama, Japan, Karen grew up the eldest of six children in a military family. She majored in anthropology at the University of New Mexico, where she formed a […]

Phaedra Greenwood is a creative writing teacher, storyteller, videographer and freelance writer who worked for five years as a journalist for The Taos News. In her long career as a […]

Martha worked on her story for over ten years, picking up the pieces of her life, attempting to figure out its puzzle. She lives in the protective shadow of Taos […]

Born in Chicago but raised in Los Angeles, Bruce Grossman traveled in Europe after graduating from UCLA in 1969. He worked as a teacher and photographer in San Francisco until […]

Margaret J. Hansen loves to tell stories. She wrote The Wellman Stories because she likes you to be flushed with feelings — like the startle of paradox, like confidence in […]

Lucy Herrman is a writer, painter and chef. She was founder and publisher of the award-winning literary small press, Syncline. Her writing has appeared in a number of literary magazines. […]

Iris Keltz was raised in NYC on the Jewish narrative of suffering in a thousand-year Diaspora. She recently retired from a forty-year teaching career that began in Harlem, NY. Her […]

Margaret Lamb has been flying the mountains for decades, first in her 85-hp Luscombe, and then for 36 years in two Navions, and some air-taxi Cessnas. She holds instrument-rated commercial […]

David Pérez is a writer, editor, journalist and actor born and bred in the South Bronx. A long-time political activist with hundreds of published articles and essays, he has also […]

Dr. Loretta Ortiz y Pino (1954-2017) was a Stanford-educated pediatrician who dedicated her life to caring for the children of Northern New Mexico, from the Navajo Nation to Taos. Born […]

Patricia Pollard is an artist and writer living in Taos, New Mexico. Both an adoptee and a birth mother, in Long Time Lost she chronicles her journey from unloved child […]

Katherine Ann Power, a native of Denver, evolved from student activist against the Vietnam War to guerrilla warrior, to fugitive on the FBI Most Wanted list, to prisoner, penitent and […]

“In Taos, N.M., lived Doughbelly* Price, a man who for 50 years has made his living by being a character.  He has been a cowpuncher, bootlegger, petty thief, champion rodeo […]

Hannah Rappaport is a lifelong independent learner whose experience is, “when the student is ready, the teacher will come.”  She sees her life as a verb rather than a noun. […]

F.R. Bob Romero is a ninth-generation New Mexican and a native born Taoseño. He served as president of the Taos County Historical Society from 2002-2009. He taught history courses at […]

Richard’s lifelong descriptive writing began with a college dual major in English and Biology, and a medical career ranging from Southwestern community health initiatives to Developmental Disability practice, teaching, and […]

Alexis Rykken has lived in remote areas of the Southwest for most of her adult life, captivated by wild lands, nourished by the mystery and grit of untamed country. She […]

Larry Schreiber, M.D., lived in northern New Mexico and practiced medicine there for 43 years. He was the proud father of 14 children, ten of them adopted from around the […]

Christine Sherwood, born in Wisconsin in 1957, moved to the mountains of Northern New Mexico in 1977. Christine graduated from massage school in 1991 and in 1995, began her teaching […]

Psychologist by background and training, storyteller by nature, Parkinson’s patient by chance, Robert Silver grew up in a gritty part of New York City, which probably predisposed him not to […]

Brian Allan Skinner has written and published more than 120 short stories which have appeared in small press and literary magazines, as well as anthologies, in the United States, Canada, […]

Dr. Strickland is currently an Emeritus Professor at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia, graduating in Medicine from the University of […]

Steve Tapia describes himself as a small-town boy from Taos, New Mexico. Graduating from NMSU with a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Wildlife Science in 1987, he began his 27-year […]

Martin Torres was born on January 30, 1929, to Onesimo Valentin and Ana Torres and raised on a ranch in Arroyo Seco, New Mexico. Martin was encouraged by his wife, […]

Jerry Walter is a retired civil engineer who has enjoyed living in Taos for over 18 years. During his work career he authored several technical reports for large projects based […]

Bill Whaley, the author of Gringo Lessons: Twenty Years of Terror in Taos, has pursued adventure as an entrepreneur and journalist in El Norte for almost fifty years. Recently, he […]

Eileen (Kalinowski) Wiard came to Taos, New Mexico, from Boston on a Helene Wurlitzer Foundation writing residency for two months in the summer of 2002. She fell in love with […]