Local Writers night at the SOMOS Salon: Dana Micucci, Scott Jones, Ed Cardenas *This is a free event. Dana Micucci is an award-winning author, journalist, speaker, and healing practitioner. "The Third Muse" is an international art-world mystery inspired by Renaissance ideals and the deep divine feminine teachings of the Magdalene Order takes you beyond The Da Vinci Code on an unforgettable journey into your heart. Over the past twenty-five years, she has written for the International Herald Tribune, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Architectural Digest, House Beautiful, Town & Country, Harper’s Bazaar, Art & Antiques, Spirituality & Health, and many other well-known publications, having served as a contributing editor at several of them, specializing in culture, travel, and spiritual and social issues. Scott Archer Jones is currently living and working on his sixth novel in northern New Mexico, after stints in the Netherlands, Scotland and Norway plus less exotic locations. He’s worked for a power company, grocers, a lumberyard, an energy company (for a very long time), and a winery. Now he’s on the masthead of the Prague Revue, and launched a novel last year with Southern Yellow Pine, "Jupiter and Gilgamesh, a Novel of Sumeria and Texas." "Jupiter" was a finalist in four categories of the 2014 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards and won a 2015 Bronze IPPY and a 2015 Silver FAPA President’s Award. The next book "The Big Wheel," arrived in March, and won FAPA’s Silver and Gold. "River Rising" is planned for release with Fomite at the end of the year. Ed Cardenas, LISW, is a writer, educator, counselor, and musician. He received his masters’ degree in social work from the University of Denver and lives in Taos, New Mexico. "El Legado" is a story of love and family, of land and roots, and about the importance of cultural heritage in discovering the road to healing.