I was raised in the northern New Mexican village of Truchas on land passed down through many generations of women. Here, we have a word — querencia — which means love of homeland. This querencia is why I weave  histories of place, identity and land use into nearly all of my writing, which combines two passions — arts and culture writing and investigative journalism. 

 

Most recently, I've written about the the nuclear weapons industry in New Mexico. But I have also written about New Mexico's largest wildfire, the lasting effects of the war on drugs in one rural town, and contemporary visual artists whose work reveals deeper truths about history and our current political moment.

 

My writing can be found in Searchlight NM, The Nation, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Hyperallergic and High Country News. Awards include a 2017 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, a 2021 Society for Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi award for excellence in journalism and 2024 MOLLY National Journalism prize in investigative journalism.

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