NOTE: This is a POD/NONRETURNABLE hardcover edition that is releasing simultaneously to the main paperback edition of the book
Santa Fe Noir features brand-new stories by: Ana Castillo, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Byron F. Aspaas, Barbara Robidoux, Elizabeth Lee, Ana June, Israel Francisco Haros Lopez, Ariel Gore, Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, Candace Walsh, Hida Viloria, Cornelia Read, Miriam Sagan, James Reich, Kevin Atkinson, Katie Johnson, and Tomas Moniz.
Editor Ariel Gore's fiction and nonfiction books have sold more than 150,000 copies combined.
Gore's books have won numerous awards, including a Lambda Literary Award, a Rainbow Award, and a New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. She's also been a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and the Kirkus Prize for nonfiction.
Gore and select contributors have strong connections to local media, including KFSR (Santa Fe public radio station), the Santa Fe Reporter, Santa Fe New Mexican, and the Alibi (Albuquerque weekly).
In addition to the typical local appeal that Noir Series volumes have, Santa Fe has a huge tourism industry and was recently named by Travel + Leisure as a "Reader's Choice Destination of the Year."
Santa Fe is the capital and forth largest city in New Mexico.
Santa Fe has a rich literary community with well-known authors such as D.H. Lawrence, Cormac McCarthy, Tony Hillerman, George R.R. Martin residing/or having resided in the city.
The volume contains one black-and-white graphic story ("La Llorona" by Israel Francisco Haros Lopez), which features 15 black-and-white illustrations. The rest of the book doesn't include any illustrations.
