ABOUT US


Papalote Press is the newest enterprise for longtime New Mexico retailer, Martha Egan, owner of Pachamama, a Latin American antiques and folk art gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe. Papalote's focus will be on fiction and non-fiction of social and literary merit reflective of the culture of the American Southwest.

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.