A Quilt of Words
Women’s Diaries, Letters & Original Accounts of Life in the Southwest, 1860–1960

Sharon Niederman

Johnson books, Boulder, CO
1988, 220 pages, hard cover
ISBN 155566-047-9

“Sharon Niederman has made a wonderful contribution to Southwestern history. A Quilt of Words gives us the voices and the memories of the women who lived that history — full of nostalgia, sorrow, joy and loss — rich with those intimate details of living which make history come alive for me”

— Tony Hillerman

Hellish Relish
Sizzling Salsas and Devilish Dips from the Kitchens of New Mexico

Sharon Niederman
Photography: Eduardo Fuss

Tuttle Publishing, North Clarendon VT
1994, 91 pages, paper
ISBN 962-593-529-0

“Filled with some great salsa ideas which pay tribute to New Mexico. She captures the spirit of its people, their personalities, and their chiles”

— Mark Miller, Aurthor of The Great Chile Book and Coyote’s Pantry, owner of Coyote Café — Santa Fe, and Red Sage — Washington DC

Shaking Eve’s Tree
Short Stories of Jewish Women

Sharon Niederman, Editor

The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, New York
1990, 279 pages, paper,
ISBN 0-8276-0369-X

Shaking Eve’s Tree is an anthology of short stories by contemporary Jewish women writers, many on mother-daughter relationships. The stories are powerful, moving and beautifully written, with sophisticated wit and complexity.

Where is the experience of being Jewish, female and American recorded in literature today? Sharon Niederman sought out the fiction that would answer that question.

Selected from over 400 stories, the seventeen in the book echo a major concern in a larger sphere of Jewish women’s fiction: they deal with healing and new ways to form relaionships within the family. The women in the stories share a longing to return to their Jewish traditions, but they also want to be accepted for themselves as they are now; the resulting inner tension is at the core of their lives.

Living Treasures
Celebration of the Human Spirit
A Legacy of New Mexico

Text: Sharon Niederman & Karen Nilsson Brandt
Photography: Joanne Rijmes

Western Edge Press, Santa Fe, NM
1997, 192 pages, paper
ISBN 1-889921-00-9

www.livingtreasures.kxx.com

“This book, like the remarkable people it memorializes, is itself a Living Treasure.”

— Tony Hillerman

New Mexico Poetry Renaissance

Editors: Sharon Niederman & Miriam Sagan
Foreward by Robert Creeley

http://sfpoetry.org/bio26.html#sagan

Red Crane Books, Santa Fe, NM
1994, 224 pages, paper
ISBN 1-878610-41-4

“D. H. Lawrence found this place wonderous, and Cabeza de Vaca long before him cried to witness its enduring peoples adapting of painful necessity to the newcomers. Echos of all the voices are here, the entrepreneur’s, the old survivor’s. The mountains, the fragile, surviving rivers, the vastness of sky, distance of mesa, sun, sudden wash of rain, cold and heat — these too echo. Just as one will see traces of the sea that once covered much of this ground, language here carries its own history and habit, speaking its persons with vivid and local authority”

— Robert Creeley