ABOUT THE AUTHOR

     Elizabeth Ann Galligan, Ph.D., poet and educator, retired in 2007 from Eastern New Mexico University. She enjoys the multicultural heritage of the Southwest and is enchanted by its ever-changing landscape.  The author admires the Hispanic and native cultures and religions of the Southwest. She holds degrees in anthropology, Latin American Studies, and Curriculum and Instruction in Multicultural Teacher Education.

     Galligan’s poetry appears in several anthologies and journals and in a number of university publications. She created two chapbooks, Poems at 65 and Striations. In 1990 she was honored with an Encouragement Award for Japanese haiku in English in the Itoën Tea Company contest. Other publications include academic articles and presentations. She authored a two-part series on artist Masami Teraoka in The Japan Times, Tokyo, English edition, and co- authored a six-part series on successful Japanese in New York. Her article, “Impressions of Kyoto,” appeared in N. Y. Journal Japan. She helped edit and is a contributor to Pioneers of Education: Essays in Honor of Paulo Freire (Nova Press, 2007) and authored a chapter in the graduate literacy text entitled Historical, Theoretical, and Sociological Foundations of Reading in the United States, Boston, MA (Pearson, 2011).

     The author lives in her city of choice, Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she pursues reading, writing, poetry, photography, and gazing at the Sandia Mountains. She is active in SouthWest Writers and Fixed & Free Poets and promotes poetry readings at local libraries. She served on the Portales Cultural Affairs Committee and the Planning Committee for the Bosque Redondo Memorial. The author is a member of the board of the Albuquerque Martin Luther King, Jr. Multicultural Council. Secrets of the Plumed Saint is her first novel.

INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARDS

FINALIST 2013

Western, Multicultural, &  Religious Fiction

NEW MEXICO-ARIZONA BOOK AWARD FINALIST  2012

Religious Fiction

"I've never held a saint before,"

Ernie said as he cradled the 100-year-old carving of the Santo Nino de Atocha, the Holy Child.

SECRETS OF THE PLUMED SAINT Summary:

"When the long-cherished statue of the Santo Nino de Atocha disappears, village leaders decide to keep the news from the Church hierarchy for fear of reprisal. They suspect the culprits are among local hippies, Protestants, drug dealers, Anglos and other outsiders. But when the statue mysteriously reappears and their beloved chapel sacristan is attacked, favorite son Jay Sierra and his pal, Ernie Lucero, team up to investigate. Long-forgotten facts about the little statue take everyone by surprise and lead to the cozy conclusion of this delightful crime mystery set in an elbow of time during the 1970s in a high mountain valley in northern New Mexico. This audiobook is filled with the northern New Mexico dialect referred to by Linguists as the Rio Arriba dialect. Code-mixing of Spanish and English terms is characteristic of the area.

“....sings with lyricism and memorable phrases.”

    --Ashley M. Biggers,

New Mexico Magazine.

"The story, with its artistic flow of words and scenes, offers an intriguing invitation to take a pilgrimage to the Land of Enchantment with its glorious traditions, customs and diverse cultures."

    --Dan Paulos, Director

of the

St. Bernadette Institute

of Sacred Art

ELIZABETH  ANN  GALLIGAN

CIPA EVVY - 2014

BRONZE MEDALS

Mystery & Audiobook