Dear Festival Friends,

The 2025 Festival is just days away, and we know you’re as eager as we are to see many of the world’s finest authors on stage here in Santa Fe. We also look forward to seeing you. Our supporters are the heart and soul of this event, and your enthusiasm is the secret sauce that makes the weekend magical. Each year, our featured authors talk about the Festival’s warm and happy vibes, and we owe it all to you. Thanks for helping us turn our love of storytelling into a joyous annual celebration!

If you’ve not yet purchased Festival tickets or would like to squeeze in one or two additional sessions, it’s not too late. A few seats remain for these fantastic writers:

Marie Arana: National Book Award finalist and author of LatinoLand and the memoir American Chica

Jonathan Eig: Renowned historian and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for the Martin Luther King biography King: A Life

Ramona Emerson: National Book Award finalist and author of the acclaimed crime thrillers Exposure and Shutter

Cristina Rivera Garza: Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Liliana’s Invincible Summer and Death Takes Me

Colum McCann: National Book Award–winning author of Let the Great World Spin, TransAtlantic, and Twist

Deborah Jackson Taffa: National Book Award finalist and author of the acclaimed memoir Whiskey Tender

Our moderators are terrific, too, and a big reason why our on- stage conversations are so memorable. When you purchase tickets to see the authors listed above, you also get: Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers and The Wide Wide Sea (on stage with Jonathan Eig and Deborah Jackson Taffa); Maria Hinojosa, Pulitzer Prize–winning host of Latino USA (on stage with Marie Arana and Cristina Rivera Garza); Hakim Bellamy, former poet laureate of Albuquerque (on stage with Gabrielle Zevin); Jamie Figueroa, author of the acclaimed memoir Mother Island (on stage with Ramona Emerson); and Alex Parsons, award-winning author of the novel In the Shadows of the Sun (on stage with Colum McCann).

Get your tickets before they’re gone, and we’ll see you soon!

Board of Directors
Edward Gale, Chair

Janet Bailey | Mark Bryant | Clare Hertel

Jenny Kimball | James McGrath Morris

Carmella Padilla | Jenna Scanlan

Mary Sloane | Maria Gale, Ex Officio

Founders
Clare Hertel | Carmella Padilla | Mark Bryant