UNM Press books are winners! Below are the recent awards bestowed on our titles.

Cary Herz, New Mexico's Crypto Jews, was presented with the New Mexico Press Women's Communicator of Achievement Award, 2008, for exceptional achievement in the communications field and service to the community.

Voyage of the Beetle by Anne H. Weaver, illustrated by George Lawrence, won the 2008 New Mexico Press Women's annual book award.

Two UNM Press books won 2008 Western Heritage Awards from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum: Eye of the West by Nancy Wood, Outstanding Photography Book, and For the Love of a Horse by Max Evans, Nonfiction

Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West by Richard Etulain was chosen for the annual Choice Outstanding Academic Title list. This year’s Choice list is composed of more than 640 books, chosen for their excellence in scholarship and presentation and significance of their contributions to their respective fields of study. The books make up less than 3 % of the more than 25,000 titles submitted to Choice during the year. "Outstanding Academic Titles are truly the 'best of the best,'" said a CHOICE release.

Rudolfo Anaya’s The First Tortilla has been chosen for the Land of Enchantment Book Award, a children’s book
award designed to encourage New Mexico youth to read books of high literary quality. The award is sponsored by
the New Mexico Library Association and the New Mexico International Reading Association. Information about the award is available at www.loebookaward.com.

Refuge of Whirling Light by Mary Beath was a finalist for the WILLA Award from Women Writing the West and a finalist for a Spur Award from Western Writers of America.

The King's Lizard: A Tale of Murder and Deception in Old Santa Fe by Pamela Christie has won the 2007 Zia Award from the New Mexico Press Women's Association for the best book published in the previous year. New Mexico Press Women is an organization of professional journalists and communicators that promotes communication ethics and standards through professional development, networking and protection of our First Amendment rights.

The Witches of Abiquiú: The Governor, the Priest, the Genízaro Indians, and the Devil by Malcolm Ebright and Rick Hendricks has been awarded the Historical Society of New Mexico’s 2006 Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award for Outstanding Publication in the Field of History.

Bitter Harvest by Paul Hart has won the 2007 Harvey Johnson Prize for best book of the year from the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies (SCOLAS).

Woven Stories by Andrea Heckman has won the Collier Prize for Still Photography from the Society for Visual Anthropology. The Collier Prize is awarded to a book or exhibition for exemplary use of still photography for research and communication of anthropological knowledge.

The Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association has announced that Cottonwood Saints by Gene Guerin has won the 2007 Regional Book Award for Adult Fiction. Cottonwood Saints also won the Premio Aztlán Literary Prize for excellence in Chicano writing. Sponsored by Rudolfo and Patricia Anaya, the award was presented on April 11, 2006 at UNM.

"Pecker's Revenge," the title story in Pecker's Revenge and Other Stories from the Frontier's Edge by Lori Van Pelton won the 2006 Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Short Fiction.

The Oklahoma Center for the Book has awarded their Director's Award for 2006 to Patrica Loughlin, author of Hidden Treasures of the American West.

The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum has announced that two UNM Press titles have won Wrangler Awards in 2006: Refuge of Whirling Light by Mary Beath - Poetry, and Charlie Siringo's West by Howard R. Lamar - Nonfiction.

Into the Canyon: Seven Years in Navajo Country by Lucy Moore was the winner of the Willa Award for Best Memoir from Women Writing the West, 2005. It was also named a Book of the Year, 2004, in the Tucson-Pima County Public Library Southwest Books of the Year.

The Montana Frontier: One Woman's West by Joyce Litz was the winner of the Willa Award for Best Nonfiction Book from Women Writing the West, 2005.

The Arizona Breeding Bird Atlas, edited by Troy Corman and Cathryn Wise-Gervais, was selected as a Top Pick in the 2006 Southwest Books of the Year by the Tucson Pima County Library.

Preserving Western History edited by Andrew Gulliford was selected as a Southwest Book of the Year in 2006 by the Tucson-Pima County Library.

The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910-1920 by Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler has won a Southwest Book Award, 2006, from the Border Regional Library Association; the Western Writers of America Spur Award winner for Best Contemporary Historical Nonfiction; and the TR Fehrenbach Award from the Texas Historical Commission. It was also a finalist for the Dallas Public Library Best Book Award from the Texas Institute of Letters.

The Horse in the Kitchen by Ralph Flores has won the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award for 2005.

Beat Thing by David Meltzer (La Alameda Press) won PEN Oakland’s 2004 Josephine Miles Award (announced in late 2005).

The authors of Public Education in New Mexico, John B. Mondragón and Ernest S. Stapleton, were awarded the Earl Nunn Memorial Friend of Education Award by the New Mexico Coalition of School Administrators (NMCSA) Board of Directors.

The Santero's Miracle: A Bilingual Story by Rudolfo Anaya, with illustrations by Amy Córdova received special recognition from The Poetry Center at Passaic (NJ) Community College for their Paterson Prize for Books for Young People.

The Language of Blood by John Nieto Phillips won the Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award for outstanding publication from the Historical Society of New Mexico, 2005.

Art of the Ancestors: Antique North American Indian Art by George Everett Shaw with Steven C. Brown, Benson L. Lanford, and Bill Mercer (Aspen Art Museum) won the Francis Smyth-Ravenel Prize for Excellence in Publication Design, 2005, from American Association of Museums.

Murv Jacob received a Wordcraft Circle award for illustration for Rabbit Goes Duck Hunting. Deborah Duvall received a Wordcraft Circle award for writing for Rabbit and the Bears.

Bailing Wire and Gamuza: The True Story of a Family Ranch Near Ramah, New Mexico, by Barbara Vogt Mallery was named Best Book, 2004, in the Tucson-Pima County Public Library Southwest Books of the Year competition.

The Clovis Incident: A Mystery by Pari Noskin Taichert is nominated for an Agatha Award for Best First Novel.

Four Corners with photographs by Debra Bloomfield won the Wrangler Award in the premier Best Photography Book category by the Western Heritage Association.

The Children of the West Series by Marc Simmons, illustrations by Ronald Kil, has won the Dorothy Woodward Award for Education from the Historical Society of New Mexico.

Friday the Arapaho Boy: A True Story from History by Marc Simmons with illustrations by Ronald Kil was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Spur Award in the best children’s nonfiction category.

The Ghost Ocean: A Novel by Richard Benke was a finalist for the Western Writers of America Spur Award in the best first novel category.

The Grandmother Stories written by Deborah L. Duvall with drawings by Murv Jacob was awarded a Director’s Award by the Oklahoma Center for the Book in the children/young adult and illustration categories. Search by The Grandmother Stories for a complete list of links to titles in the series.

Hermanitos Comanchitos: Indo-Hispano Rituals of Captivity and Redemption by Enrique R. Lamadrid with photographs by Miguel A. Gandert won the prestigious 2004 Chicago Folklore Prize from the American Folklore Society. It also was a winner of a 2004 Border Regional Library Association Book Award.