Vincent Barrett Price (born August 30, 1940) is an American poet, human rights and environmental columnist, editor, reporter, publisher, and teacher.

His other collection is Innocence Regained: Christmas Poems, which compiles fifty years' worth of his most intimate, inquisitive, and inspired work.

[9] In November 2011, UNM Press published Price's seminal book The Orphaned Land: New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project.

In the book, Price analyzes fifty years of newspaper articles and government reports to reveal the environmental toll which New Mexico has paid for decades of military munitions testing, uranium mining, and population growth: unsustainable development, air and water pollution by multinational corporations and undue strain on the state's limited water supply, to name a few.

[10] Framing New Mexico as "a microcosm of global ecological degradation," Price explores the impacts and systematic breaches of public trust by some of the pervading power structures affecting the environment around the world: the military-industrial complex, multinational corporation's impact on local natural resources, and the lack of consideration of long-term environmental consequences in development planning.

Speaking with Gene Grant on KNME-TV's New Mexico In Focus, Price stated that the Manhattan Project both transformed and deformed the American West.

[11] Marc Simmons of the Santa Fe New Mexican called the book "a stellar compendium focused on the state's slide toward ecological degradation.