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"I always intended to get serious about my fiction writing
at some point,” says award-winning author Martha Egan. “But it took
a hideous experience with US Customs to force me into
it." Her semi-autobiographical first novel, Clearing
Customs, was named Book of the Year (Fiction 2005) by OnLine Review
of Books & Current
Affairs. Her next novel, Coyota, won a Bronze Ippy Award for Mountain-West
Best Regional Fiction in 2008 from the Independent Publishers Association.
Egan publishes under her own imprint, Papalote Press. Papalote's
focus will be on fiction and non-fiction of social and literary merit
reflective of the culture of the American Southwest. Her forthcoming
book, La Ranfla and Other New Mexico Stories, will be released in
2009.
Her non-fiction books, Milagros: Votive Offerings from the Americas (1991) and Relicarios:
Devotional Miniatures from the Americas (1994) were published by the Museum of New Mexico Press.
Egan has been a Latin American folk art dealer since 1974 and owns Pachamama, a folk art gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe. She holds a BA from the University of the Americas in Mexico City, and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Venezuela in the late 60’s. She grew up in northeastern Wisconsin. These days, she lives in Corrales, New Mexico, with coyotes, roadrunners, quail, and the ghost of an old cat.
The Editor and Chief of Papalote Press is Pachamama alumna,
Santa Fe textile and book artist, Carol Eastes. She holds
a BA in Art & Theatre from Rockford College in Illinois
from which she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. She had a Fulbright
Tutor Grant in India, where she taught English & studied
Rajasthani textiles. She first came to New Mexico in 1972
to work in the Santa Fe Opera costume shop, returned in
1976, and basically forgot to leave.
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