Nancy Wood            Writer & Photographer

Nancy Wood has produced more than 25 books and 25,000 photographs of the Southwest.
 
Her work chronicles the daily life of the people of Taos Pueblo, Ute Mountain and Southern Ute communities, Colorado ranches and small towns, and Pie Town, NM in the 1970s and 1980s, a time before casinos, cell phones, and factory farms.

She is also the author of numerous acclaimed books of poetry, fiction, and children's fiction.

Selected Books

We Became as Mountains,

Sherman Asher Press, 2008

 

Eye of the West, University of New Mexico Press, 2007

Old Coyote (children's fiction), Candlewick Press, 2006

The Serpent's Tongue: Prose, Poetry and Art of the New Mexico Pueblos, Dutton, 1997

Taos Pueblo, Knopf,1989

Heartland New Mexico: Photographs from the FSA 1935-1943, University of New Mexico Press, 1989

When Buffalo Free the Mountains: A Ute Indian History, Doubleday, 1980

The Grass Roots People: An American Requiem, Harper and Row, 1978

Many Winters: Poetry and Prose of the Pueblos, Doubleday, 1979
(sold 250,000 copies)

In This Proud Land: America 1935-43, as Seen in the FSA Photographs, New York Graphic Society, 1974

Clearcut: The Deforestation of America, Sierra Club, 1972

Colorado: Big Mountain Country, Doubleday, 1969