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Tom Ireland, Editor
Tom Ireland
Editor
505-476-0168
thomas.ireland@state.nm.us
B.A., English Literature, Harvard University
M.A., Creative Writing, Stanford University
I moved to New Mexico in 1971. After two years at Lama Foundation (meditating, building, mountain climbing, writing, and going to meetings of the Native American Church), I and my wife traveled by mule in the direction of southeast Utah. We only made it as far as Durango (snow, fences, renegade mule). My first book, Mostly Mules, is an account of that journey. We bought some irrigated land near Ojo Caliente, where my daughter Hannah was born, and raised sheep and goats. Birds of Sorrow is a collection of essays about those years.
I moved to Santa Fe in the 1980s and worked construction until I was hired by the National Park Service to edit a study of the missions of San Antonio. Thereafter I worked for the School of American Research Press, OAS, Smithsonian Books, and various university presses. My other writing includes Our Love Is Like a Cake (true-life romance in post-Soviet Poland) and The Man Who Gave His Wife Away (essays). I received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in creative nonfiction and a Jeffrey E. Smith Award from the Missouri Review.