Gallup Literary Directory

Nominate to the Gallup Literary Directory anyone who has published in or about this region.

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The Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts were established in 1974 by New Mexico Arts to honor lifetime achievement and support of the arts in New Mexico. 2005 winners will be honored at an awards ceremony on September 16, 2005. Nominations may be made by anyone residing in New Mexico, except Arts Commissioners and the staff of New Mexico Arts. Click


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Gallup Literary Directory

This list will grow as the people of the Gallup region nominate those who have contributed to the area. Nominate individuals who have lived in the area or have written about the area. Includes all types of publications, including print, audio, video.



Gallup Literary Sources

List of libraries, bookstores, magazines, newspapers, and outlets for Gallup produced works.

Acoma Pueblo Library Acoma, NM 505 552 6108
Buffalo Medicine Books, Publisher Gallup, NM http://www.buffalomedicine.com
Cantos Para Todos, Publisher of books, videos, stories, songs, and materials for teachers P.O. Box 2352
Gallup, NM 87305
505 778 5448
www.cantos.org
Gallup Independent Daily Newspaper Gallup, NM gallpind@cia-g.com
The Gallup Herald Weekly Newspaper 207 South Second St.
Gallup, NM 87301
505 726 8330
ads@gallupherald.com
Gallup Journey Monthly Magazine P.O. Box 2187
106 West Coal
Gallup, NM 87305
Chuck Whitney
Phone #: 505.722.3399
fax #: 505.722.3399
gallupjourney@yahoo.com
http://www.gallupjourney.com/
Leading the Way The Wisdom of the Navajo People, Monthly Magazine P.O. Box 272
Gamerco, NM 87317
Kathleen Manolescu
505 863 8124
fax # 505 863 4368
kathleenmanolescu@hotmail.com
http://leadingthewaymagazine.com
Octavia Fellin Public Library

115 West Hill, Gallup, NM

Mon-Thurs. 9 am - 8 pm.
Fri. 10 am - 6 pm
Sat. 9 am - 6 pm

505 863 1291

http://ofpl.ci.gallup.nm.us/

Octavia Fellin Children's Library

200 West Aztec Ave, Gallup, NM

Tues-Thurs. 10 am - 7 pm.
Fri. 10 am - 6 pm
Sat. 9 am - 6 pm

505 726 6120

http://ofpl.ci.gallup.nm.us/children's_library.htm

Salina Bookshelf Books, videos and materials in Navajo Reviews
San Juan School District Media Center Books, videos and materials in Navajo www.sanjuan.k12.ut.us/media/mediaweb.htm
Shush Yaz Trading Company Books of local interest
The Spirit of Zuni - magazine Zuni Tourism Office, PO Box 339, Zuni NM 87327, (505) 782-7238; www.experiencezuni.com
Wisdom Keeper Bookstore
In the Storyteller Museum Gift Shop
Gallup Cultural Center
201 E. Highway 66
Gallup, NM 87301
505-722-7534
kent@cia-g.com

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Elizabeth Barriga Writer, The Gallup Herald Newspaper
Kay Bennett Kaibah
Noel Bennett Working with Wool; How to Weave a Navajo Rug
Elaine Bobo The Spirit of Zuni Magazine
Fr. Murray Bodo, O.F.M. Walk in Beauty
Eddie Bortot Poetry ebortot@gmcs.k12.nm.us
Ray Boyett Homesteading in the Thirties
Mary Bowannie The Spirit of Zuni Magazine
Dave Brugge The Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute; Another American Tragedy
Ernie Bulow Navajo Taboos; Publisher, Buffalo Medicine Books including Words, Weather, and Wolfmen: Conversations with Tony Hillerman http://www.buffalomedicine.com
Joseph Burgess The Spirit of Zuni Magazine
Fr. Antrim Carmac, O.F.M Laborers of the Harvest; The Navajo Wisdom Keeper Bookstore
Lance and Cathy Chilton New Mexico: a Guide to the Colorful State
Chinle Curriculum Center Diné Bikéyahdi Ch'il Nanise' Altaas'é’ Review
Jack L. Crowder Storyteller; author
Stephannie and The Coyote
Tonibah and the Rainbow
crowdercon@aol.com
P.O. Box 310
Bosque, NM 87006
505 385 0282
Douglas Congdon-Martin The Navajo Art of Sandpainting Review
Lee Correl Anatomy of the Navajo Indian Reservation
William and Jean Cousins Tales from Wide Ruins
Leahn Cox Video Documentaries of Navajo culture and language 505.879.4325
Leahn Cox Video Documentaries of Navajo culture and language 505.879.4325
Ruth Danoff Flying with Elmergene
Quintina Deschenie Oral Tradition: Poetry about Reservation Life
Allison Dollar Playwright, murder mysteries
Jonathan Dooley Children's Radio Show, Songwriter http://www.kglp.org/moon/
Sunny Dooley Navajo Storyteller: DINÉ FOLKLORE IN CULTURAL CONTEXT http://www.nmeh.org, then click on "Programs", "Speakers", search for "Dooley"
Andrea Egger Andrea Egger, 'Grave Accusations' a true story based on a suspicious death in Farmington, New Mexico. Publisher-New Horizon Press. She is currently finishing her 2nd novel based on another New Mexico crime. Ms. Egger is a former reporter for the Gallup Independent. She is now a teacher in the McKinley County School District.
Octavia Fellin Yaweh: the Voice Beautifies the Land
Michael Ferrari Songwriter
A. J. Gilland The Spirit of Zuni Magazine
Terence Gurley Documentary "Back to Bloody Harlan" won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in
1974.
The history of labor strife in Harlan County, KY (the original impetus for the famous
labor song "Which Side Are You On?") from the 1930's up to and including the renewed
organizing efforts of the recently reformed United Mine Workers of America (Arnold Miller
and his reform slate of "Miners for Democracy" had swept the murderous Tony Boyle
from office).
tmgurley@earthlink.net
Ann Randack Gruda Wagon Home
Arthur T. Hannett Sagebrush Lawyer
Tom Hartsock Writer, The Gallup Herald Newspaper
Roxanne Heath Thoreau: Where the Trails Cross
Henry Greenberg & Georgia Greenberg Power of the Navajo, Carl Gorman: The Man and His Life Wisdom Keeper Bookstore
Karl Herr Songwriter Website
Tony Hillerman Novels about Navajo Culture; Words, Weather, and Wolfmen: Conversations with Tony Hillerman.

http://www.buffalomedicine.com

http://www.tonyhillermanbooks.com/

Roy E. Howard Stories, Songs, Videos, Teacher Materials; www.cantos.org/Booksfolder
Toni Hutchinson Song Writer 505 722 4781
Dick Hyson The Calling
Annabelle Janssen Video Documentaries of Navajo Life Biography
Karen Jenson The Trail of Darkness
Elaine Jordan Academic
Patti Jordan Frybread Man (book); and Cowboy Poetry pjordane@rae.gmcs.k12.nm.us
505 783 4725
Jerry Kammer The Second Long Walk 1100 National Press Building,
Washington, DC 20045
jerrykammer@yahoo.com
202-737-7681
George Kanesta The Spirit of Zuni Magazine
Kenji Kawano The Navajo Codetalkers

http://codetalkers.info/content/view/52/37/

Kenji Kawano is an immigrant from Japan who is married to a Navajo woman and now lives in Fort Defiance, is an excellent photographer whose book about the Navajo Code Talkers is a wonderful contribution to the history of the area.
928-871-5777
Bernadine Kelly Tales of a Tenderfoot; Luján's Return
Lester Kein "Kindbeat" Native Radio Show http://www.kglp.org/kindbeat/
Betty Kelley Hillcrest Cemetery Graves Rex Museum
Mary Jeanette Kennedy Tales of a Trader's Wife: Life on the Navajo Indian Reservation
Tom R. Kennedy The Spirit of Zuni Magazine
Ruth F. Kirk Zuni Fetishes
Joseph J. Kolb Get Fit Now for High School Basketball; Publisher, The Gallup Herald Newspaper
Richard Kruis That They May Know: A Lay Minister's Account of His Experience in Navajo Missions
Christopher Kurtz novel - Last Dance and the nonfiction book - Demons and Madmen http://www.mochamemoirs.com/staff/kurtz.htm
Nicole Kurtz Novelist; Writer, The Gallup Herald Newspaper http://www.mochamemoirs.com/NGKNovels.htm

N_Kurtz@msn.com

Judith Leyba The Spirit of Zuni Magazine
Laurance D. Linford Tony Hillerman's Navajoland; Navajo Places; Measure of Excellence; Ceremonial Indian Art Waldenbooks: University of Utah Press; Gallup Public Library
Martin Link The Spirit of Zuni Magazine; The Goat and the Rug, and anthropological and archaeological books; Navajo: A Century of Progress, 1868-1968
Larry Blackhorse Lowe Various Films, including ''5th World''
Otto Lucio The Spirit of Zuni Magazine
Patricia Maguire Academic
Catherine Manning Let's Explore http://www.kglp.org/
Kathleen Manolescu Leading the Way: The Wisdom of the Navajo People, Monthly Magazine P.O. Box 272
Gamerco, NM 87317
505 863 8124
fax # 505 863 4368
kathleenmanolescu@hotmail.com
http://leadingthewaymagazine.com
Dale Mason Indian Gaming
Kent McManus The Spirit of Zuni Magazine
Frank McNitt Indian Traders
James Mecale Songwriter
Terri Menges Publisher, The Spirit of Zuni Magazine
Blackhorse Mitchell Miracle Hill: The Story of a Navajo Boy; Screenplay; Webpage University of Arizona Press
Ken Moore Gentle Smiles (book of Cowboy Poetry)
Feb 14, 2006 release
Pre-release December 2005
HC-61 Box 5011 Ramah, NM 87321
505 783 4559
The Poets Promise Foundation
PoetsPromice@yahoo.com
Website
Patrick Moore Playwright, "Daughters of the Desert"; Writer, The Gallup Herald Newspaper; Newscaster, KGLP
Brent Mowrer Cowboy Poetry bmowrer@ci.gallup.nm.us
Pat Neff Songwriter
Sally Noe Gallup Life Magazine; Our Gallup, New Mexico, a USA Story; The Spirit of Zuni Magazine; The Gallup Herald Newspaper; "SIX DECADES OF ROUTE 66" Gallup Public Library; Chamber of Commerce; Wisdom Keeper Bookstore; Rex Museum. noesway@msn.com
Jack North El Morro Arts Council Writing Contest
Dianna Ortiz The Blindfold's Eyes: My Journey from Torture to Truth Orbis Books
Craig Robinson Journalist. Photographer and writer for the Gallup Herald and Gallup Independent since December of 2000. America 24/7 photographer, images appearing in many Regional and National publications including: Time, Money, The New York Times, New Mexico Magazine.
Please contact for photographs of work

P.O. Box 4375, Gallup , NM 87305
takephotography@earthlink.net
505 863 8116

Merle Roehr A Cowboy's Thoughts Authorhouse
Irene Barraza-Sánchez Comida Sabrosa: Homestyle Southwestern Cooking
Milan Skelnar Milan Sklenar Photographs
Timothy Stuart Children at Promise: an Alternative Paradigm; Gallup 14
Julian Tatarsky If Only Growing Clever Kept Going Forever and 99 other rhymes
Robert Rosebrough and Peter Tempest The Gallup Guide: Outdoor Routes in Red Rock Country
Roger Thomas The Spirit of Zuni Magazine
Michael Thompson Oral tradition poetry about reservation life
Mervin Tilden Writer, The Gallup Herald Newspaper
Eric van Hartesveldt Ceramic Analysis of the Rio Puerco Valley, Archaeological Catalog
Evon Vogt Modern Homesteaders
Willliam H. Wall Song Writer, Publisher of Songs 505 722 4781 bill@wall.biz
Kim Wall Song Writer 505 722 4781 kim@wall.biz
Chuck Whitney Gallup Journey Magazine gallupjourney@yahoo.com
http://www.gallupjourney.com/
Carlene H. Williams Illustrated Story Books Website Illustrated Story Books Website
Alan Wilson and Eugen Dennison Laughter: the Navajo Way
Yazz Navajo Painter Biography of a Navajo Painter Review
Dollie L. Yazzie Navajo Songs for Classroom Enrichment www.cantos.org
Steve Yellowhorse Video Documentary of a Navajo Silversmith www.cantos.org
Robert Young and William Morgan The Navajo Language, a Grammar and Colloquial Dictionary
Joshua Zunie Writer, The Gallup Herald Newspaper
Fort Defiance History