Maggie Grimason
writer + editor
About
Maggie Grimason is a writer and editor in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.
She writes stories about diving into mystery in search of truth (that is to say, she writes about art and science).
Her art writing has been published in Playboy, Hyperallergic, The Independent (UK), and more. She's written interpretive texts for exhibitions from Albuquerque to Berlin.
Her science writing has been published in journals produced by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and The Center for Biological Diversity, among others.
She has profiled comedians like Eric Idle (of Monty Python) and Marc Maron; writers Sandra Cisneros and Isabel Allende; visual artist Cannupa Hanska Luger; and Pulitizer Prize-winning composer Raven Chacon.
In 2022, she received an Urban Enhancement Trust Fund grant to begin work on a novella-length piece of creative nonfiction on hauntings, grief, and philosophies of memory. She held a workshop styled as a séance to explore these topics in 2023. In 2025 she completed training in audio description (AD) for blind and low vision visual art audiences and is working on a long form philosophy of art piece titled "The Ecstatic Field: The Ethics, Poetics, and Potentials of Audio Description in Visual Art."
Her science writing has been anthologized by the University of South Florida and her creative nonfiction has been highlighted by Longreads.
Mostly, she's watching the birds, interpreting the dreams of everyone she knows, and staring into the crusty eyes of her little white dog.
Writing (Selections)
Catalog essay for Perseverance, group show at birds + Richard, Berlin, Germany
On poet Xu Lizhi for Paste Magazine
On New Mexico's commercial spaceport for Undark at MIT
Critical Review of Many Worlds Are Born at 516 ARTS for Hyperallergic
Albuquerque's modernist architecture for New Mexico Magazine
Ghosts, sounds, memories at Ploughshares (Emerson College)
On cyborgism and cyborg art for Playboy
Life at Paolo Solieri's Arcosanti for The Independent
The Silvery Minnow and Rio Grande drought for The Center for Biological Diversity
Critical review of Liquid State by Allyson Packer for Southwest Contemporary
Karsten Creightney at 516 ARTS for Hyperallergic
Thinking about death again. For Headspace
Interpretive essay for public art installation I/You/We by Friends of the Orphan Signs
Interpretive essay for exhibition mailer, if you like it/ VULGÄR GARTEN EXPERIMENT for birds + Richard, Berlin
Review of Steve Barry's Wave for Southwest Contemporary
"A Brief History of Spontaneously Combusting Devices" for Paste Magazine
At home with Cannupa Hanska Luger and Ginger Dunnill for Southwest Contemporary
Catalog essay for Puerto Rico: Defying Darkness at 516 ARTS
Editing
Books
The Suzan Harjo Collection, Museum of Contemporary Native Art (MoCNA), Santa Fe, NM.
Becoming an Artist to the World: Music and Social Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century by Mark Rabideau, University of Colorado, Boulder.
Visually Speaking: A Companion to Public Art in Albuquerque, Friends of Public Art, Albuquerque, NM.
Articles (Selections)
"Challenges in Preserving Santa Fe's Past," by Rachel Preston, Southwest Contemporary.
"A Window into the Mythos of Georgia O'Keeffe," by Sarah Rovong, Southwest Contemporary.
"New Mexico Women: Lucy Lippard," by Jenn Shapland, Southwest Contemporary.
The studio of Grace Rosario Perkins, from a 2019 interview. Photo by Clayton Porter.
