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University of New Mexico Provost Craig White announced the appointment of Richard Schuetz as interim director of UNM Press effective July 26, 2017. “I am very pleased that Richard has agreed to take on oversight of the UNM Press in this important time...

Meaningful Places: Landscape Photographers in the Nineteenth-Century American West, by Rachel McLean Sailor, won History Colorado’s 2016 Barbara Sudler Award. The award, which includes a cash prize of $500 for the author, is presented biennially to a...

Bad Clowns, by Benjamin Radford, won the 2017 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards Bronze Medal for Popular Culture. Award-winning books will be presented with IPPY medals on May 30 at the annual BookExpo publishing convention in New York. Honoring...

Celebrate reading and enjoy great savings this spring on your favorite books from the University of New Mexico Press. The UNM Press Spring Campus Book Sale will be held on Thursday, April 27, from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the SUB Mall (between SUB & Mesa Vista...

University of New Mexico Press author Angela Morales’s debut essay collection, The Girls in My Town, was awarded PEN America’s 2017 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. The $10,000 award honors an outstanding book that exemplifies...

Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range, by William deBuys, won the Richard Harris Award for Publishing Excellence from the New Mexico Book Association (NMBA). A revised and expanded edition of the book was...

The Cooking with Kids Cookbook, by Lynn Walters and Jane Stacey, with Gabrielle Gonzales, is the national winner in the “Children” category for the 2017 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. The book, published by the University of New Mexico Press in 2016,...

The 2016 Association of American University Presses (AAUP) Book, Jacket and Journal Show is currently on display at The University of New Mexico through Feb. 24, 2017 in the Waters Room at Zimmerman Library. The 51st annual show features the winners of...

A Civil War History of the New Mexico Volunteers and Militia, by leading Civil War historian Jerry D. Thompson, won the 2016 A. M. Pate, Jr. Award in Civil War History from the Fort Worth Civil War Round Table this month. The award, which includes a...

University of New Mexico Press author Angela Morales’s debut essay collection, The Girls in My Town, has been named a finalist for PEN America’s 2017 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. The award honors an outstanding book that...