Orlando Romero, novelist, sculptor, and santero, is the retired library director of the Palace of the Governors Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe. He resides in Nambé, New Mexico. Romero is the coauthor of Adobe: Building and Living With Earth.
Thomas E. Chávez is the former director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, and the former curator and director of the Palace of the Governors, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe.