Award- winning poet/playwright/essayist John Macker lives in Santa Fe, NM. His latest books are The Blues Drink Your Dreams Away Selected Poems 1983-2018 (Stubborn Mule Press), Gorge Songs (DCArt Press,2017) with Denver wood- block artist Leon Loughridge and Blood in the Mix (with El Paso poet Lawrence Welsh) Lummox Press, 2015. In 2014 Disassembled Badlands was published (the 3rd book in the Badlands trilogy). Other books include Woman of the Disturbed Earth, Underground Sky, Adventures in the Gun Trade, Las Montañas de Santa Fe and The Royal Road: Impressions of El Camino Real ( both in limited edition and with woodblock art by Leon Loughridge.). In 2006, he edited the Desert Shovel Review. He has won a Colorado Council on the Arts grant, A Colorado Arts (Tombstone) Award for Poetry and the 2006 Mad Blood magazine award for the long poem, "Wyoming Arcane."