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Stanley Crawford to be a featured author at the 2023 Santa Fe International Literary Festival

The Santa Fe International Literary Festival
will take place May 19–21, 2023,
bringing together world-renowned authors, thinkers, and passionate readers in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Visit Santa Fe International Literary Festival (sfinternationallitfest.org) for more info.

STANLEY CRAWFORD has lived since 1969 in the Embudo Valley of northern New Mexico, where he divides his time between writing and farming. He has published four nonfiction books about northern New Mexico, including Mayordomo and A Garlic Testament. His most recent nonfiction work is The Garlic Papers: A Small Garlic Farm in the Age of Global Vampires (Leaf Storm Press, 2019). He has also published several novels, including the modern classic Log of the S.S. the Mrs. Unguentine, Village, and Some Instructions to My Wife Concerning the Upkeep of the House and Marriage, and to My Son and Daughter Concerning the Conduct of Their Childhood. Crawford has been the recipient of two National Endowment fellowships, a Lila Wallace–Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, and residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Centrum, and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Study Center.

Featured Book: Village: A Novel by Stanley Crawford (Leaf Storm Press, 2017)

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Balloon Museum to Host Reading of Award-Winning Children’s Book on Grief

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Stanley Crawford’s The Garlic Papers: A Book Review

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Dixon Farmer Starts Global Garlic War

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