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Laguna Pueblo: A Photographic History, by authors Lee Marmon and Tom Corbett, won the 2016 Western Heritage Award for Photography Book from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. A Wrangler — a bronze sculpture of a cowboy on horseback—will be...

The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) selected a book published by the University of New Mexico Press for the 2016 AAUP Book, Jacket, & Journal Design Show. UNM Press Book Designer Lila Sanchez was honored in the category of Jackets &...

Three books published by the University of New Mexico Press won 2015 Southwest Book Awards from the Border Regional Library Association. The awards, which recognize outstanding books about the Southwest, will be presented on Saturday, Feb. 27 at the...

Five UNM Press titles won seven awards at the 2015 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards this month. Winners were announced at the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards annual banquet held Friday, Nov. 20, at the Tanoan Country Club in Albuquerque. The awards are...

Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave by Sean Prentiss won the 2015 National Outdoor Book Award for History/Biography. The National Outdoor Book Awards—sponsored by the National Outdoor Book Awards Foundation, Association...

UNM Press author Juan Felipe Herrera was appointed Poet Laureate by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today. Herrera will be the 21st Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2015–2016. The nation’s first Latino poet to hold the position, Herrera...

UNM Press presents a campus book sale in honor of World Book Day, Thursday, April 23 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Student Union Building mall, located between the SUB and Mesa Vista Hall west on the UNM campus.   

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.