About the author: Meet Anne Hillerman

Anne is the author of the award-winning Tony Hillerman's Landscape: On the Road with Chee and Leaphorn and seven other books. Her newest book, a collaboration with photographer Don Strel, is Gardens of Santa Fe, released April 1, 2010. No fooling! In more than twenty years as a journalist, she worked as editorial page editor for the Albuquerque Journal North and the Santa Fe New Mexican, and as an arts editor for both papers. She has been the Santa Fe restaurant reviewer for the Albuquerque Journal since 2001 and works as a writing coach on fiction and nonfiction projects. Anne is also the author of  Santa Fe Flavors: Best Restaurants and Recipes (winner of the 2009 New Mexico Book Award!); The Insiders Guide to Santa Fe, Children's Guide to Santa Fe, Done in the Sun, and Ride the Wind: USA to Africa.
In addition to working on a new book, Anne is a director of Wordharvest Writers' Workshops and the Tony Hillerman Writers' Conference: Focus on Mystery, both of which she helped to establish in 2001. A Tony Hillerman Conference Writers'  Weekend in Santa Fe, N.M. is in the works for November 11-13, 2010. Featured faculty include authors Margaret Coel, Judith Van Gieson. Val;eries Plame Wilson and Bill O'Hanlon. For more about the conference and Wordharvest