Martha Egan Author

Martha Egan began to write fiction in response to her experiences as a Latin American folk art dealer attempting to cope with the U.S. Customs service. Her semiautobiographical first novel, Clearing Customs, was named Fiction Book of the Year in 2005 by OnLine Review of Books and Public Affairs. Her next novel, Coyota, won a Bronze IPPY Award for Mountain-West Best Regional Fiction in 2008 from the Independent Publishers Association. Her nonfiction books are Milagros: Votive Offerings from the Americas and Relicarios: Devotional Miniatures from the Americas. Egan owns Pachamama, a folk art gallery in Santa Fe.