Tommy Archuleta
Poet Laureate of Santa Fe, California, 2024–
Tommy Archuleta is a native-born resident of Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is the author of Susto (University Press of Colorado, 2023), a 2023 Mountain/West Poetry Series title, which was featured in the November/December 2023 issue of Poets & Writers as part of the magazine’s annual “5 Over 50.” He is also the author of the chapbook Fieldnotes (Lily Poetry Review Press, 2023).
A mental health therapist and substance abuse counselor, he works for a local nonprofit mental health agency in Santa Fe. In 2024, he was appointed Santa Fe’s seventh poet laureate.