V. B. Price is a noted New Mexican poet and journalist?and more. He is a member of the faculty of the University of New Mexico's Honors College, former editor of the Mary Burritt Christensen Poetry Series at the University of New Mexico Press, and an adjunct associate professor at the UNM School of Architecture and Planning. He is a cofounder of the online publication New Mexico Mercury and the author of several books, including The Orphaned Land: New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project.

Former US Senator Fred Harris (1930-2024) was a professor emeritus of political science at the University of New Mexico as well a director emeritus of the UNM Fred Harris Congressional Internship Program. He produced twenty nonfiction books on public policy, politics, and government, including the coedited Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and Poverty in the United States, as well as three novels.