Debra Hughes is the author of Albuquerque In Our Time: 30 Voices, 300 Years. Her short fiction has been anthologized in Tierra: Contemporary Short Fiction of New Mexico and Walking the Twilight: Women Writers of the Southwest and has appeared in New Letters, New Mexico Humanities Review, and Blue Mesa Review. Hughes is a native of New Mexico, and her writing about the state’s land conservation was awarded an International Regional Magazine Award. Her essays have appeared in Telling New Mexico: A New History, The Harbrace Writer’s Handbook, Narrative Magazine, Huffington Post, USA Today, New Mexico Magazine, Dallas Times-Herald, and others.
