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Rose Simpson
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Rose B. Simpson

Rose B. Simpson holds two master’s degrees, from the Rhode Island School of Design and the Institute of American Indian Arts creative nonfiction program. Her endeavors engage ceramic sculpture, metals, fashion, performance, music, writing, and custom cars, including Maria, a black-on-black 1985 Chevrolet El Camino crafted as an homage to legendary potter Maria Martinez. “I find it easy to get lost in the mundanities of the everyday, forgetting the gifts I’ve inherited or been given. It has been an interesting journey to write about my mother, to reflect on those gifts as our world seems to intensify and awaken. It has given me perspective to nurture and  apply these gifts to our trembling existence with newfound heart.”

My Mother, The Builder

Roxanne Swentzell and her daughter, Rose B. Simpson, sit with Rose's daughter, Cedar. Photograph by Ungelbah Dávila-Shivers. ON SOME DAYS, WHEN the northern New Mexico weather is nice, I find myself…

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Alligators

Above: Illustration by Brett Affrunti. LATE-1980S MIDSUMMER EVENINGS we would go irrigate the fields. Mama and Stepdad shoved their shovels into the bed of the dusty green 1952 Willys truck, the…

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Found(ation)

Above: Rose B. Simpson outside her lifted Ford truck. Photographs by Minesh Bacrania. FOR THE LAST FEW MONTHS of senior year at the Santa Fe Indian School, my scholarship-acceptance letter to…

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