Established in 1929, the University of New Mexico Press publishes creative works and scholarship in several disciplines, including anthropology, archaeology, indigenous studies, Native studies, Latin American studies, art, architecture, and the history, literature, ecology, and cultures of the American West. UNM Press is the largest publisher in New Mexico and seeks to represent the culture, history, and stories of the Southwest.
Send a Runner
A Navajo Honors the Long Walk
Both exhilarating and punishing, Send A Runner tells the story of a Navajo family using the power of running to honor their ancestors and the power of history to explain why the Long Walk happened.
- Copyright year: 2021
Good Naked
How to Write More, Write Better, and Be Happier. Revised and Expanded Edition.
Cole offers more stories, strategies, tips on craft, and exercises to serve new and seasoned writers from the first draft to the final edit.
- Copyright year: 2022
Girl Flees Circus
A Novel
Girl Flees Circus takes flight the moment Katie crashes to earth, promising a journey into the lives of a glamorous, redheaded stranger and the people she will change forever.
- Copyright year: 2022
The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds
Poems
The poems in The Gospel of Wildflowers and Weeds expand the sacred within a baroque, magical-realist poetics that immerses itself in the flora and fauna of the Caribbean and the region's complex interplay of African, Judeo-Christian, and Taíno (Arawak) cultures.
- Copyright year: 2022
Reflections through the Convex Mirror of Time / Reflexiones tras el Espejo Convexo del Tiempo
Poems in Remembrance of the Spanish Civil War / Poemas en Recuerdo de la Guerra Civil Española
In this poignant bilingual collection, preeminent New Mexican poet E. A. "Tony" Mares posthumously shares his passionate journey into the broken heart and glimmering shadows of the Spanish Civil War, whose shock waves still resonate with the political upheavals of our own times.
- Copyright year: 2022
La Mina
A Royal Moche Tomb
La Mina: A Royal Moche Tomb focuses on La Mina, an extraordinarily rich tomb that was looted on the north coast of Peru in 1987.
- Copyright year: 2022
House Gods
Sustainable Buildings and Renegade Builders
In House Gods, Kristofic pursues the techniques of sustainable building and the philosophies of its practitioners.
- Copyright year: 2022
A Serpentine Gesture
John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology
In "A Serpentine Gesture": John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology Elisabeth W. Joyce examines John Ashbery's poetry through the lens of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's conception of phenomenology.
- Copyright year: 2022
New Mexico's Moses
Reies López Tijerina and the Religious Origins of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
In New Mexico's Moses, Ramón A. Gutiérrez dives deeply into Reies López Tijerina's religious formation during the 1940s and 1950s, illustrating how his Pentecostal foundation remained an integral part of his psyche even as he migrated toward social-movement politics.
- Copyright year: 2022
Jesuits and Race
A Global History of Continuity and Change, 1530-2020
Jesuits and Race examines the role that the Society of Jesus played in shaping Western understandings about race and explores the impact the Order had on the lives and societies of non-European peoples throughout history.
- Copyright year: 2022
I Got Mine
Confessions of a Midlist Writer
I Got Mine: Confessions of a Midlist Writer is the memoir of Nichols's extraordinary life, as seen through the lens of his writing.
- Copyright year: 2022
Tactics of Hope in Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature
Using Gloria Anzaldúa's theories of conocimiento as a critical lens, the authors examine several literary works including Side by Side / Lado a lado; They Call Me Güero; Land of the Cranes; Efrén Divided; and Gabi, a Girl in Pieces.
- Copyright year: 2022