Author - Artist - Story Teller
EAGLE - OWL - TURTLE - WATER
About the Author
Barbara Madrid graduated from a local college in Albuquerque, New Mexico, focusing her studies in the field of law. After working ten years as a paralegal with a group of lawyers, she decided to leave and worked within the public school system for another ten years, eventually becoming the New Mexico Legislative Vice President for the New Mexico Federation of Teachers as a lobbyist representing all education workers of the state and was herself a member of the AFLCIO. Her mentor of politics was her cousin the late Senator Ben Altamirano. In April 2000, Madrid decided to leave the schools and politics all together and is currently working for University of New Mexico Hospitals.
Madrid was born 1950 in Torrance, California, attending the public schools of Wilmington and San Pedro. In 1978, at the advice of her father Andrew, she decided to bring her three very young sons back and raise them in the Land of Enchantment where her parents and ancestors are from, New Mexico. Madrid remarried in 1984 and currently lives with her husband Leroy, two dogs and five cats in the quiet Manzano Mountains near Edgewood, New Mexico. With the help of her husband Leroy, she accolades what her sons have grown to be, a Preacher, Policeman and Corrections Officer. Madrid’s motto is, “if the preacher can’t save them, the policeman will take them and the CO will watch them for life.”
Following in her father’s footsteps, Madrid is an artist and storyteller and writes short stories. She considers herself an in-home musician enjoying her guitar playing for self-relaxation. Her hobbies consist of oil painting landscape and seascapes. Her favorites are lightning scenes, crocheting, cooking, sewing, and the studies of alternative healing. Among her many hobbies is reading mystery, suspense and romance novels, which has inspired her to write her own novel from real life experiences. Madrid is part Native American and has stirred some of her father’s teachings into her writings including short ghost stories from her mother’s side of the family.
Although Barbara Madrid was born and raised in Southern California her summers were spent growing up in the Gila Wilderness. Madrid was rooted in her cultural heritage and family history thanks to her father’s teachings through his many stories. The one room shack that her Grandmother raised seven boys in is still standing to this day in the ghost town of Pinos Altos, New Mexico where her father grew up playing in the family owned the Portillo Opera House and Saloon which is now known as the Buckhorn Saloon. In her aging life Madrid has dedicated herself to preserving the history of her family by resurrecting the oral history of the natives of that area N'de (Apache).
Madrid's publicity stems from the writing of her first novel “The Journey of Abduction” and is currently working on writing the sequel “Go By The Four Winds.” Madrid continues to pursue a personal involvement with magnanimous undertakings and is a great advocate within the indigenous way of life.
Barbara Madrid graduated from a local college in Albuquerque, New Mexico, focusing her studies in the field of law. After working ten years as a paralegal with a group of lawyers, she decided to leave and worked within the public school system for another ten years, eventually becoming the New Mexico Legislative Vice President for the New Mexico Federation of Teachers as a lobbyist representing all education workers of the state and was herself a member of the AFLCIO. Her mentor of politics was her cousin the late Senator Ben Altamirano. In April 2000, Madrid decided to leave the schools and politics all together and is currently working for University of New Mexico Hospitals.Madrid was born 1950 in Torrance, California, attending the public schools of Wilmington and San Pedro. In 1978, at the advice of her father Andrew, she decided to bring her three very young sons back and raise them in the Land of Enchantment where her parents and ancestors are from, New Mexico. Madrid remarried in 1984 and currently lives with her husband Leroy, two dogs and five cats in the quiet Manzano Mountains near Edgewood, New Mexico. With the help of her husband Leroy, she accolades what her sons have grown to be, a Preacher, Policeman and Corrections Officer. Madrid’s motto is, “if the preacher can’t save them, the policeman will take them and the CO will watch them for life.”
Following in her father’s footsteps, Madrid is an artist and storyteller and writes short stories. She considers herself an in-home musician enjoying her guitar playing for self-relaxation. Her hobbies consist of oil painting landscape and seascapes. Her favorites are lightning scenes, crocheting, cooking, sewing, and the studies of alternative healing. Among her many hobbies is reading mystery, suspense and romance novels, which has inspired her to write her own novel from real life experiences. Madrid is part Native American and has stirred some of her father’s teachings into her writings including short ghost stories from her mother’s side of the family.
Although Barbara Madrid was born and raised in Southern California her summers were spent growing up in the Gila Wilderness. Madrid was rooted in her cultural heritage and family history thanks to her father’s teachings through his many stories. The one room shack that her Grandmother raised seven boys in is still standing to this day in the ghost town of Pinos Altos, New Mexico where her father grew up playing in the family owned the Portillo Opera House and Saloon which is now known as the Buckhorn Saloon. In her aging life Madrid has dedicated herself to preserving the history of her family by resurrecting the oral history of the natives of that area N'de (Apache).
Madrid's publicity stems from the writing of her first novel “The Journey of Abduction” and is currently working on writing the sequel “Go By The Four Winds.” Madrid continues to pursue a personal involvement with magnanimous undertakings and is a great advocate within the indigenous way of life.
