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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 ...

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 ...

The University of New Mexico Center for Regional Studies provided more than $51,000 to purchase University of New Mexico Press published books for under-funded public and tribal libraries across New Mexico. Under the leadership of Director Tobías Durán

The University of New Mexico Press announces several recent staff changes. James Ayers joined UNM Press in April as the new production editor. Ayers previously served as an editorial assistant at Louisiana State University Press. Zoya Lozoya recently ...

The Center for Regional Studies (CRS) at the University of New Mexico provided $53,475.22 to purchase books published by the University of New Mexico Press for under-funded public and tribal libraries across New Mexico. Under the leadership of Tobías ...

Tengo Sed by James Fleming, part of the Literature and Medicine Series from the University of New Mexico Press, has won the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Fiction. Chosen by a distinguished panel of writers, editors, critics and journalists, the ...

The University of New Mexico Press announces that Hilda Raz is the new editor for its Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series. Raz, recently retired from Prairie Schooner, served as editor for the literary journal since 1987 and is founding director of ...

Two UNM Press authors were among winners of the 2009 Book of the Year Awards announced by ForeWord Magazine at a ceremony at BookExpo America held recently in New York City.Rebecca Reider's Dreaming the Biosphere, the tangled tale of the creation, and ...