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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 2h

We are setting up at #WHA2025 -- Acquisitions Editor Sonia Dickey is at the conference, with Call for Proposals information for two of our series: The West in Context and the New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest.

We are setting up our booth at #WHA2025 and we can't wait to hob nob with you! Come visit UNM Press in Booth 2. While supplies last, we are giving away copies of Jack Rittenhouse's Guide Book to Highway 66! Acquisitions Editor Sonia Dickey is at the conference, with Call for Proposals information for two of our series: The West in Context and the New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest. Welcome to Albuquerque, Western History Association!

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 4h

Mark Sundeen chats with Utah Public Radio about his book "Delusions and Grandeur: Dreamers of the New West.

'Delusions and Grandeur' with Mark Sundeen on Access Utah

We talk with Mark Sundeen about his book "Delusions and Grandeur: Dreamers of the New West."

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 21h

The Las Cruces Bulletin takes a look at THE MOUNTAIN KNOWS THE MOUNTAIN: "Connors called it a 'half departure' from his previous work because it is still a book about living in the Gila National Forest for close to half a year."

Writer Philip Connors visits an old tradition with new book - Las Cruces Bulletin

For readers and fans of local writer Philip Connors, the writer has taken a “half departure,” with his new book, “The Mountain Knows the Mountain—A Fire Watch Diary.” Connors is known for his nature…

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 1d

New poems from Robin Becker published this month in On the Seawall. If you enjoy these, you'll love her upcoming collection MIDSUMMER COUNT, which can be preordered now!

“Common Ground,” “Eating Greenland” & “Thirst” – On the Seawall

“Here is / the bridge // they said / they’d burn // when they / got to it …

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 1d

Waiting for Godínez by Daniel A. Olivas is one of the books that Electric Literature wants to make sure you don't miss this fall! See the whole list here, and find out what they had to say about this timely reimagining of Waiting for Godot. 💙📚
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15 Small Press Books You Don’t Want to Miss This Fall - Electric Literature

These books ask what it means to belong, to stay or leave, or to exist in-between

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 2d

"The characters, living or dead, present or past, feel so authentic."

The Albuquerque Journal takes a look at THE LLANO COUNTY MERMAID CLUB. Author Kathleen M. Rodgers will be at @bkwrks.bsky.social this Thursday to discuss the book and sign copies! #booksky

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'The Llano County Mermaid Club' sparkles with small-town New Mexico life

Small-town dreamers populate Kathleen M. Rodgers’ welcoming new novel, “The Llano County Mermaid Club.” The Mermaid Club’s five members are all girls — the three Hubbard sisters, Clover, Marigold, and...

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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 4d

Coming soon, from @unmpress.bsky.social!

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 5d

A Guide to the Bars and Restaurants of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul by Aimee Macpherson won first place in the Travel category! Leave the fancy restaurants to New York, ignore the juicing in LA, forget your Paleo diet, and come and taste Albuquerque.

A Guide to the Bars and Restaurants of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, by Aimee Macpherson, is the 2025 New Mexico Book Awards Winner for Travel. The restaurants and bars featured in Macpherson’s compendium show us glimpses of Walter White’s and Jimmy McGill’s Albuquerque.

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 5d

Into the Unknown by Michael P. Ghiglieri won first place in the Sports/Recreation category! This insider memoir recounts ten sagas of extreme expeditions into Earth’s most amazing wilderness regions to illustrate their realities, science, allure, history, risks to life and limb, and ultimate fates.

Into the Unknown: High Adventure and Hard Lessons Exploring the World's Great, Lost Wilderness Rivers, by Michael P. Ghiglieri, is the 2025 New Mexico Book Awards Winner for Sports/Recreation. Into the Unknown reveals what the natural world looks like through a professional’s eyes during “adventure” travel, when things start sliding toward the edge. This insider memoir recounts ten sagas of extreme expeditions into Earth’s most amazing wilderness regions to illustrate their realities, science, allure, history, risks to life and limb, and ultimate fates.

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 5d

Report from a Last Survivor by Fred Harris won first place in the Political & Current Events category! Senator Harris was the last member of the Kerner Rights Commission after the riots, disorders, and protests in 1967. Each story is a look back at 93 years of public service and personal devotion.

Report from a Last Survivor, by Fred Harris is the 2025 New Mexico Book Awards Winner for Political & Current Events. Report from a Last Survivor tells Fred Harris’s many stories: some serious, some funny, and all true. Each story forms a part of this report of a last survivor, a long look back over ninety-three years and counting of a rich life of public service and personal commitment.

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 5d

I Am of the Tribe of Judah Edited by Stephen A. Sadow won first place in the Multicultural category! This collection looks at poems that exalt being Jewish, expressing humor and satire, mysticism and Kabbalah. There are poems responding to anti-Semitism, exile, protest, and the Holocaust.

I Am of the Tribe of Judah: Poems from Jewish Latin America, Edited by Stephen A. Sadow, Introduction by Ilan Stavans, is the 2025 New Mexico Book Awards Winner for Multicultural.

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 5d

Julio Galán: The Art of Performative Transgression by Teresa Eckmann won first place in the LGBTQIA+ category! Galán was an artist ahead of his time using gender-fluid imagery, performative persona, queer self-representation, and cross-cultural visual/textual references still relevant today.

Julio Galán: The Art of Performative Transgression, by Teresa Eckmann, is the 2025 NM Book Awards Winner for LGBTQIA+. Replete with full-color reproductions of Galán's artwork and photographic material, Teresa Eckmann's book serves as the first English-language monograph on the artist's life and work.

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 5d

Dichos en Nichos by Sage Vogel won first place in the Fiction-Other category! This debut collection invites readers into the heart of an archetypal 1950s Northern New Mexico village, where the fruit orchards, arroyo roads, adobe homes, and even pigsties hold tales of wit, romance, woe, and wisdom.

Dichos en Nichos, by Sage Vogel and Illustrated by Jim and Christen Vogel, is the 2025 New Mexico Book Awards Winner for Fiction-Other.

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 5d

The Half Life of Guilt by Lynn Stegner won in the Cover Design competition! This is the story of Clair Bugato and Mason Comstock and their journey to the world’s largest saltworks in Baja California. Where an expansion threatens the gray whale population, recently come back from extinction.

Half-Life of Guilt is the 2025 New Mexico Book Award Winner for Cover Design (Larger than 6x9). The cover was designed by Felicia Cedillos, UNM Press Book Designer.

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 5d

Citizen Carl by Jack McElroy won first place in the Biography category! Educator, lawyer, editor, inventor, entrepreneur, and civic booster, Carl Magee helped shape New Mexico and Oklahoma. His legacy lives on, and the issues he faced remain relevant today.

Citizen Carl: The Editor Who Cracked Teapot Dome, Shot a Judge, and Invented the Parking Meter, by Jack McElroy, is the 2025 NM Book Awards Winner for Biography.

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 5d

Broken Boxes by Ginger Dunnil & Josie Lopez won first place in the Arts category! This book shows the artists committed to creating, sustaining, and encouraging solidarity. By opening up conversations across communities, art practices, and shared spaces, we see how they are taking action.

Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue, by Ginger Dunnill and Josie Lopez is the 2025 NM Book Awards Winner for Arts. Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and Dialogue celebrates ten years of Ginger Dunnill’s podcast of the same name and exalts the intersectionality of contemporary artists.

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 5d

Pueblo Bonito and Chaco Canyon Revisited by Jonathan E. Reyman won first place in the Anthropology/Archaeology category! The book is full of insights on Chaco burials from unpublished field notes, diaries, and archaeological analyses, showing the value of records in archives, museums, and libraries.

Pueblo Bonito and Chaco Canyon Revisited: The Published versus the Unpublished Record, by Jonathan E. Reyman is the 2025 NM Book Awards Winner for Anthropology/Archaeology.

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 5d

Open-Hearted Horizon by Valerie Martínez & Shelle VanEtten de Sánchez won first place in the Anthology category! The anthology includes a wide range of Albuquerque-based poets and poems that are inspired—directly, associatively, obliquely—by Albuquerque, New Mexico, as a place and as a community.

Open-Hearted Horizon: An Albuquerque Poetry Anthology, by Valerie Martínez & Shelle VanEtten de Sánchez, is the 2025 NM Book Awards Winner for Anthology. The anthology includes a wide range of Albuquerque-based poets and poems that are inspired—directly, associatively, obliquely—by Albuquerque, New Mexico, as a place and as a community.

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 5d

Borderland Brutalities by @drlauraabelmonte.bsky.social won first place in the History category! Belmonte analyzes how border violence is perpetuated and allowed by private corporations and the US and Mexican governments and how violence is represented through literature and cultural production.

Borderland Brutalities: Violence and Resistance along the US-Mexico Borderlands in Literature, Film, and Culture, by UNM Assistant Professor Laura Belmonte, is the 2025 NM Book Awards Winner for the History category.

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 5d

Congratulations to our 12 winners and 13 finalists for the 2025 NM Book Awards!🎉🍾 Out of 37 total categories we placed in an impressive total of 25 of them and we couldn't be prouder of our authors and team.✒️ Click on the link below to read all about it. #booksky
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LibraryThing @librarything.com · 8d

"A deep dive into the grit and glamor of America's favorite criminal couple and the nation's love affair with guns."

Win a copy of Kirk Ellis' "They Kill People" from the @unmpress.bsky.social #💙📚 #Booksky

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 11d

On the Farm to Table Talk podcast, Gilles Stockton shares perspectives on problems and solutions for modern agribusiness in his book, “Feeding A Divided America – Reflections of a Western Rancher in the Era of Climate Change.”

Feeding a Divided Country - Gilles Stockton - Farm To Table Talk

There is a growing rural urban divide and it is effecting our food system locally, globally and nationally, especially in this climate change era. Gilles Stockton explains the current situation and…

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Chris Yogerst @chrisyogerst.com · 13d

Just got author copies of my new book, a study on The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). This was a transformative film for me and I am honored to have been asked to give it the dedicated history it deserves. @unmpress.bsky.social @sarenaulibarri.bsky.social

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Daniel A. Olivas @danielolivas.bsky.social · 13d

TCR Talks to Daniel A. Olivas, author of Waiting for Godínez.

Many thanks to Pallas Gutierrez of The Coachella Review for this thoughtful interview about my #immigration play just published by the University of New Mexico Press. thecoachellareview.com/2025/10/02/t... #playwriting

TCR Talks to Daniel A. Olivas, author of Waiting for Godínez

By Pallas Gutierrez The last time The Coachella Review checked in with Daniel A. Olivas, we published a review of his short story collection My Chicano Heart, a work that we described as both experi...

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University of New Mexico Press @unmpress.bsky.social · 14d

Read our new blog post, where author Susan Aizenberg shares her connection to Frank O'Hara and offers advice for new poets. Discover why she urges writers to stay focused on the pleasures of the work rather than the outcome! 📚 ✒️ #poetrysky

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