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Wilderness by Debra Bloomfield won the 2015 Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Photography Book from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) selected a book published by the University of New Mexico Press for the 2015 AAUP Book, Jacket & Journal Design Show. The AAUP announced the winners of the prestigious annual design competition this...

Four books published by the University of New Mexico Press won 2014 Southwest Book Awards, to be presented Saturday, Feb. 28 at Ardovino’s Desert Crossing in Sunland Park, N.M., at the Border Regional Library Association annual awards banquet.

John Byram, director, University of New Mexico Press, received the New Mexico/Arizona Literary Award at the 2014 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards annual banquet held recently. The award, which recognizes New Mexico publishers and/or authors for their ...

Toby Smith, former Albuquerque Journal reporter and current UNM instructor in Communication & Journalism, brings to life the forgotten period of minor league baseball history in New Mexico and West Texas in his new book, Bush League Boys, a UNM Press ...

University of New Mexico Professor of English Sharon Oard Warner is the author of the new book, "Sophie's House of Cards," published by the UNM Press.  “Perhaps it’s a trick of the imagination, but the house of cards seems to glow, filling the murky r

University of New Mexico Press title Amiri Baraka and Edward Dorn: The Collected Letters, edited by Claudia Moreno Pisano, won the 2014 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature. The PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Awards were created ...

UNM Press title Losing the Ring in the River, by Marge Saiser, won the 2014 WILLA Literary Award in Poetry from Women Writing the West (WWW). The annual awards recognize the best published literature for women’s or girls’ stories set in the North ...

Imagining Geronimo: An Apache Icon in Popular Culture, by William M. Clements, was an award winner at the recent New Mexico Book Association’s Southwest Book Design and Production Awards, featuring cover and jacket design by UNM Press book designer Lil

Cipriano Frederico Vigil is the most important performer of traditional Nuevomexicano folk music in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The book, "Hispanic Folk Music of New Mexico and the Southwest and New Mexican Folk Music/Cancionero del ...