Amy Boaz

Dec 1, 2024 | kirkusreviews.com | Amy Boaz |Kristin Hannah

A melancholy novel about imperfect people loving each other imperfectly. A trans person looks back on their relationship with their mother after her disappearance. Boaz’s novel opens two weeks after George’s mother, Louise, vanished from Willow, New Mexico. In the year or so before her disappearance, George and their girlfriend, Truley, had been living with Louise in her home.

Nov 4, 2024 | taosnews.com | Willa Cather |Amy Boaz

Death Comes for the Archbishop  Please purchase a subscription to read our premium content. If you have a subscription, please log in or sign up for an account on our website to continue. (University of New Mexico Press, 2024, 236 pp., intro by Richard W.

Oct 8, 2024 | taosnews.com | Amy Boaz

“The most important stories are those that ground us in our origins, inspire us for the future and foster renewal in both our land and our relationships with one another,” according to poet Olivia Romo, a “proud Taoseña,” activist and the curator of this weekend’s chockablock Taos Storytelling Festival, in its 26th year. Over the next two days, the community will be teeming with stories, from community storytellers to professionals, and from the Hacienda Martinez to SOMOS and the TCA.

Jun 4, 2024 | taosnews.com | Amy Boaz

Edited by Laura A. JacobsJessica Kingsley Publishers (2024, 221 pp.) “We are no longer deeply in the shadows,” writes one lawyer contributor to this valuable new anthology of 16 transgender advocates. “We are living authentically, and we have a right to be here.”Legislative, judicial and physical hostility against trans people has risen since the election of 2016, threatening to undo many of the advances implemented under the Obama administration.

Oct 2, 2023 | taosnews.com | Amy Boaz

‘Up From the Ashes We Rise’A Collection of Prose and PoetryEdited by Sharon Vander Meer Las Vegas Lit Press (2023, 132 pp.)“Three knocks on the door. I was told to leave my home. That fire in the distance? They said I was now in the red zone? How could that be it was miles away….