Lauren Tresp
Publisher/Editor
Lauren Tresp is founder of Southwest Contemporary and the publisher and editor-in-chief of SWC's The Magazine. She has a Master of Arts in Humanities from the University of Chicago, where she studied Medieval and Renaissance Art History, and a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and History from UCLA.
Maggie Grimason
Managing Editor
Maggie Grimason is a writer and editor living in Albuquerque, NM. She edited a collection of essays on public art, Visually Speaking, was previously the Arts & Lit editor of the Weekly Alibi, and contributes to many other independent publications. When she's not writing, she's walking the bosque, planning her next trip, or writing poetry in bed.
Rebecca Lynch
Client Account Representative and Distribution Manager
Rebecca Lynch is from Double Adobe, Arizona, and lives in Albuquerque. She has worked in media sales, print and digital, for over twenty years.
Clayton Porter
Editor / Photographer
Clayton Porter is an artist living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Jenn Shapland
Contributing Writer
Jenn Shapland is an editor and nonfiction writer living in New Mexico. Her first book, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, will be published in February 2020 by Tin House Books. She teaches in the creative writing department at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Jordan Eddy
Contributing Writer
Jordan Eddy is the marketing director of form & concept, and co-director of the emerging art space NO LAND. As an arts writer, he has contributed to Santa Fe Reporter, Visual Art Source, art ltd, New Mexico Magazine and other publications.
Alicia Inez Guzmán
Contributing Writer
Originally from Truchas, New Mexico, Alicia Inez Guzmán currently lives and works in Santa Fe. Her writing focuses on Indigenous and mestizo art practices and histories of land use in the Southwest. She is a 2017 recipient of an Andy Warhol Foundation Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant for her website Tierra Firme Projects.
Chelsea Weathers
Contributing Writer
Chelsea Weathers' art writing has been published in Artforum, Art Papers, Criticism, Gulf Coast, Hyperallergic, The Poetry Foundation, and elsewhere. She is Managing Editor of Radius Books in Santa Fe.
