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Greg Glazner was a professor of Creative Writing at the College of Santa Fe until 2009. His collections of poetry are Walking Two Landscapes, From the Iron Chair, Singularity, and Cellar Testament. His awards include The Walt Whitman Award, The Bess Hokin Award from Poetry, and an NEA Fellowship. A lifelong guitarist, he wrote the libretto for composer Garrett Shatzer’s At the Blinds and performed the electric guitar part in concerts. His Santa Fe bands included The Kinetics, The Bluehounds, The Benders, and Zeno’s Run.
Jon Davis is the author of fourteen poetry collections, including, most recently, Above the Bejeweled City (Grid Books, 2021). A new collection, Fearless Now & Nameless, is forthcoming in 2025. Davis also co-translated Iraqi poet Naseer Hassan’s Dayplaces (Tebot Bach, 2017). He has received a Lannan Literary Award, the Lavan Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships. He taught creative writing and literature for thirty years, twenty-eight of them at the Institute of American Indian Arts. In 2013, he founded the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing at IAIA. From 2012-2014, he served as the City of Santa Fe’s fourth poet laureate. Although he has known his alphabet for many years, it is only since joining CTHD that he's learned to count.
Current Santa Fe Poet Laureate Tommy Archuleta has drummed for many music projects over the years. Such projects include 27 Devils Joking, 23 More Minutes, Disasterman, Angola Farms, Beautiful Stupid Radio, These Charming Cobras, and Pitch & Bark. He works for the New Mexico Corrections Department as a mental health counselor and mourns daily the demise of what was American democracy. He is the author of Susto (University Press of Colorado, 2023), as well as Fieldnotes (Lily Poetry Review Press, 2023).
Jon Lucero started with “Music in the Theater” back in the late 80’s when the College of Santa Fe hosted musicals at Greer Garson Theater. He also attended the Berklee School of Music summer courses at St. John's College. He studied under various legends in Santa Fe and began writing and recording music in the early 90’s. He's played in various bands, mostly rock, post-punk, and a few jazz ensembles. He collaborated with Santa Fe’s best and has been on his own ever since.
Jon Trujillo grew up in Santa Fe playing drums in bands such as thesilentvacuum, mindphone, and KnoTduS. He currently works as an Educational Behavioral Health Associate with Santa Public Schools and has spent the past 13 years working as an audio engineer, 10 while residing in Atlanta, Georgia. He has worked on music, film, and theater projects with Meow Wolf, ot-un-et-ir, Bernard Purdie, Grant Green Jr., stephaniesǐd, O'Brother, Toubab Krewe, Morris Pleasure, Florida Georgia Line, Michael Tilson Thomas, New World Symphony, Netflix, Tyler Mane, Dad's Garage, Chris Jaramillo, and many others.