Bonnie Rucobo

    Bonnie K. Rucobo is a New Mexico poet and children’s author.  Born in Washington, D.C., she received a B.A. from Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and a J.D. from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California.  She has authored two children’s novels, King Pachuco and Princess Mirasol and its sequel.   Both were finalists in the Arizona/New Mexico Book Awards, and King Pachuco and Princess Mirasol:  the Sequel received an honorable mention in the Los Angeles Book Festival.  She has also published an illustrated collection of ekphrastic poems describing sculpture at the Albuquerque Museum.  Her work is widely anthologized in local publications, and she has created five videos of poetry and photography aired on YouTube in collaboration with the New Mexico Arts Imaginative Collective.