Aggie is an author, photographer and correspondent and has been called the "Grandma Moses of the American Southwest"

Writing since the late 70's, Aggie Villanueva’s first novel, Chase the Wind, Thomas Nelson 1983, was published before she was 30 and her second, Rightfully Mine, from Thomas Nelson in 1986.

Villanueva freelanced throughout the 80s and 90s, also writing three craft columns and three software review columns, for national magazines. Villanueva was featured on the cover of The Christian Writer Magazine October 1983.

After teaching at writers conferences throughout the Midwest, she founded/directed the 3-day Mid-America Fellowship of Christian Writers conferences for four years until 1990. For the past several years Aggie has blogged. She is founder of Visual Arts Junction: http://www.visualartsjunction.com, and is known for her in-depth interviews.

"Aggie has few peers as an interviewer. She does her homework, asks layered questions that illuminate the writer's core, and brings a fresh and positive energy to the experience for both reader and interviewee alike."
Larry Brooks, critically acclaimed author of suspense fiction.

“Aggie Villaneuva's interviews are more perspicacious than most, better researched, and more complete than most you find, even in national periodicals.”


Carolyn Howard-Johnson,award-winning novelist, author of the HowToDoItFrugally

Photographic art entered in 2007, and within two years Villanueva was critically acclaimed and award winning. Villanueva is represented in several online and walk-in art galleries across the nation.

…Villanueva is one of those rare individuals who uses new technology…to take a digital image to a new and exciting level….With some photographers this digitizing and manipulation are evident and stumbling...not so with Villanueva's work, which is sophisticated and well thought out….She has a knack for transferring her impression of a scene to the viewer that is remarkable and almost magical.

June 19, 2008 issue of the Rio Grande Sun

She is known as the "Grandma Moses of the American Southwest," and the nickname fits as comfortably as a well-worn pair of jeans. Aggie Villanueva is a self-taught artist, a grandmother and something of a folk hero to anyone who opts to pursue a new vocation later in life.”

Thomas B. Harrison, The Mobile Register, August, 2009

"…photographs are like a cross between photography and painting, Ansel Adams and Georgia O'Keeffe rolled into one. If you took an Ansel Adams photograph and had Georgia O'Keeffe re-do it in a painterly way, you'd have a genuine Aggie Villanueva."

Mike Orenduff, Premiere Writer of NM, author The Pot Thief series