MAGGIE GRIMASON
228 Carlisle Blvd. mgrimaso@gmail.com
Albuquerque, NM maggiegrimason.com
87106 +1 574-276-3765
USA
Areas of Specialization
Art Writing/ Criticism/ Journalism
Creative Nonfiction (Writing/ Editing)
Science Writing/ Communication/ Journalism
Copyediting (Chicago Style)
Areas of Competence
Literary Theory; Philosophy of Art; Environmental Ethics; Literary Fiction (Writing and Editing)
Employment
2017- Present Freelance writer and editor
2022 Technical writer
Coalesce.io
Snowflake
2015-2021 Senior Editor
Hawks Aloft, Inc.
2019-2020 Managing Editor
Southwest Contemporary
2015-2019 Arts & Literature Editor
Weekly Alibi
2015 Interpretive Writer
Tijeras Creek Restoration Project
Freelance Partners (a non-exhaustive list)
Clarion West, Seattle, WA
Policing Alternatives & Diversion, Atlanta, GA
K-Squared Strategies, New York, NY
Two Hats Consulting, Berkley, CA
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, New York, NY
Gift of Life, Beaumont, TX
Education
2026 Center for Democratic and Environmental Rights
Rights of Nature Legal Training
2025 FutureLearn
Certification, Audio Description
2024 Stanford University
Course, Writing in the Sciences
2024 Harvard Extension
Course, Big Data for Public Good
2007 University College Cork
Coursework on James Joyce and Myth in Literature
2004 – 2008 Indiana University
B.A, cum laude, English (concentration in creative writing) and art
history; minor in folklore & ethnomusicology
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2026. Editor. States of Erosion: Reshaping and Reclaiming. Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Institute of American Indian Arts.
2026. Editor. Paper Trails: Unfolding Indigenous Narratives. Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Institute of American Indian Arts.
2025. Editor: The Suzan Harjo Collection. Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Institute of American Indian Arts.
2023. Editor: Becoming an Artist to the World: Music and Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century by Mark Rabideau, University of Colorado Boulder Press.
2019. Editor: Visually Speaking: A Companion to Public Art in Albuquerque, Friends of Public Art.
Works in Progress
In preparation, article: “The Ecstatic Field: The Ethics, Poetics, and Potentials of Audio Description in Visual Art”
In preparation, book (memoir/social history): A Period of Juvenile Prosperity.
Articles (Selections)
2026:
“The Glass Magician,” New Mexico Magazine.
2025:
Perseverance exhibition essay, birds + Richard Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
“Tomorrowland Today,” New Mexico Magazine.
Obsession: Justine Kablack artist profile, Southwest Contemporary.
“Sidewalk Rhetoric,” Nob Hill News.
“Adapted from a Podcast, Broken Boxes Materializes Artists’ Voices,” Southwest Contemporary.
2024:
Esther Elia: Living Histories artist profile, Southwest Contemporary.
Wills Brewer: Radical Futures artist profile, Southwest Contemporary.
2023:
Up in the Air Exhibition essay, birds + Richard Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
“Bruce Nauman: His Mark,” Southwest Contemporary.
“Esther Elia’s Diasporic Deities Summons the Divine to Downtown Albuquerque,” Southwest Contemporary.
2022:
“Once Upon a Time in Albuquerque,” Hyperallergic.
“Never Look Away: Reflecting on the Life and Art of Leonard Fresquez,” Southwest Contemporary.
“Albuquerque’s Risolana Fosters Lo-Fi Art That’s Responsive to the Contemporary Moment,” Southwest Contemporary.
2021:
“Field Report: Joshua Tree and the High Desert,” Southwest Contemporary.
2020:
I/You/We public art interpretive essay, Friends of the Orphan Signs.
“Death and Coffee: How One Café Is Breaking Taboos,” Headspace.
2019:
“All Work and All Play: At Home with Artists Cannupa Hanska Luger and Ginger Dunnill,” Southwest Contemporary.
“Hindsight/Insight,” Southwest Contemporary.
“Albuquerque, Modern: A Sunbelt City’s Mid-Century Building Blitz Draws New Admirers,” New Mexico Magazine.
2018:
“Spaceport America: New Mexico’s Protracted Gamble on Spaceflight,” Undark.
“Cyborg Enthusiasts Want to Redefine What Being Human Means,” Playboy.
“What Rio Grande Drought Means for Endangered Silvery Minnows,” The Revelator.
Puerto Rico: Defying Darkness exhibition essay, 516 Arts, Albuquerque.
“Hari Kondabolu Brings Truth to the Stage,” Weekly Alibi.
“New Views for Without Reservations: Ricardo Caté’s Cartoons Deck the Walls of IPCC,” Weekly Alibi.
2017:
“Wildlife and the Border Wall,” Aloft: A Journal of NM Avian Conservation.
“Arcosanti: The Commune for Millennial Dreamers in the Middle of the Arizona Desert,” The Independent.
2016:
“A Long View on Climate Change,” Aloft: A Journal of NM Avian Conservation.
“What We Listen For: In Lightning Speak Raven Chacon Composes Music That Celebrates Silence,” Weekly Alibi.
“Grabbing the Mystery: Garo Antresian Illuminates His Life and Art,” Weekly Alibi.
2015:
“I Don’t Know Any Weak Women: A Conversation with Isabel Allende,” Weekly Alibi.
“Conservation of Flora and Fauna Gets Complicated in the Middle Rio Grande Bosque,” Aloft: A Journal of NM Avian Conservation.
Creative Writing
2021:
“What a Ghost Sounds Like,” Ploughshares.
2018:
“What the Queen of Cups Taught Me,” 1905 Magazine.
Talks and Events
“Reclaiming Edith Farnsworth,” 2025. In conversation with Nora Wendl, Bookworks, Albuquerque.
“A Night Like Sea Waves,” 2025. Live poetry writing and dream reading in support of artist Zahra Marwan, Hecho a Mano, Santa Fe.
“Shaping Artistic Identities, Narratives, and Foundations,” 2024. With Zahra Marwan, Surface: Emerging Artists of New Mexico, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque.
“Séance: Writing Memory,” 2023. Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque.
“Writing Our Stories,” 2023. With Dorielle Cami and Reyes Padilla, Surface: Emerging Artists of New Mexico, Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque.
Service & Service to Profession
Board Member, Technical and Professional Writing Program, Industry and Academic Advisory Team, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque (2025- present)
ESL-SSL Literacy Volunteer, Encuentro, Albuquerque (2025-present)
Judge, The Leopold Writing Program Writing Contest, Albuquerque (2026)
Board Member, Friends of Public Art, Albuquerque (2017-2019)
Judge, Pueblo Gingerbread House Contest, Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Albuquerque (2015, 2018)
Volunteer Editor, New Mexico Immigrant Law Center, Albuquerque (2016)
Awards & Honors
Urban Enhancement Trust Fund grant, for “Séance,” 2023.
Myrtle B. Armstrong Award for undergraduate fiction, 2008.
Languages
Spanish (limited working proficiency)
Professional Memberships
ABQ Pen Pals
New Mexico Women in the Arts
Science for the People
Society for Disability Studies
Southwest Writers Workshop