Name: El Palacio Winter Issue Reading
Start: 2026-01-11T14:00:00-07:00
Location: FUSION ABQ

Please join us for a reading panel and conversation with four contributors to El Palacio’s winter issue. The event will be held at FUSION 708, which is located at 708 1st St. NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102.
Featured readings include:
• Laura Paskus’s article about bringing respect to the field of archaeology through traditional and community knowledge and guidance at the Pueblo of Acoma.
• Myrriah Gómez’s article about the vital roles women and children played in the 1970s Chicano Movement in Las Vegas, NM, as depicted in Adelita M. Medina’s black and white photographs.
• Rica Maestas’s article about the SITE SANTA FE Once Within a Time exhibitions at the New Mexico History Museum’s Palace of the Governors that question systems of power and disrupt preconceived ideas about New Mexico history.
• Santana Shorty’s poem “Sun Series,” that asks us to pay closer attention to the seemingly small, daily gifts in our lives.
Following the readings, editor of El Palacio, Emily Withnall, will facilitate a Q&A.
Copies of the magazine and the contributors’ books will be available for sale.
Visit FUSIONnm.org for event information.
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
• Laura Paskus is a longtime writer and producer based in Albuquerque, and author of "At the Precipice: New Mexico’s Changing Climate."
• Myrriah Gómez is an associate professor in the Honors College at the University of New Mexico and the author of "Nuclear Nuevo México: Colonialism and the Effects of the Nuclear Industrial Complex on Nuevomexicanos."
• Rica Maestas is a socially engaged artist and writer from Albuquerque whose creative and cultural work elevates lived wisdom and prioritizes mutuality.
• Santana Shorty is a writer and poet from New Mexico. She received her BA from Stanford University and MFA in Creative Writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her writing has been published in New Mexico Magazine, El Palacio, and "Water Bodies: Love Letters to the Most Abundant Substance on Earth" (Torrey House Press). She is working on her first novel. She is a member of the Navajo Nation and lives in Santa Fe.