He has authored and edited twenty titles in addition to prodigious as-yet-unpublished works. His weekly column about politics, culture, human rights, and the environment, now called the Mercury Messenger, has run continuously in various iterations since 1971. He has taught for decades in the University of New Mexico’s School of Architecture and Planning and Honors College.

Price's poetry and prose have appeared in more than eighty national and international periodicals since 1962, including The Southwest Review, The Calcutta Review, South Dakota Review, Manhattan Review, The New York Quarterly, New Mexico Quarterly, Uzzano, and Occident. His poems have also been published in New Mexico Poetry Renaissance, Red Crane Books, and Saludos! Poems of New Mexico. He served as architecture editor of Artspace magazine of Albuquerque and Los Angeles, is the former editor of New Mexico Magazine, was city editor of The New Mexico Independent, and was the founding editor of the late Century Magazine.

In 2021, Price was elected to the Board of Directors for the Leopold Writing Program, and he received the 2021 New Mexico Literary Arts Gratitude Award “for contributions to the life of the poetry community in New Mexico and the Southwest.”

In 2016, Price was awarded the honorary degree Doctor of Letters (Litt. D.) and the Paul Bartlett Ré Peace price, Lifetime Achievement Award, by the University of New Mexico.

In 2014, Price received the Top of the Rockies Award, First Place, environmental Enterprise Reporting Online.

In 2013, Price, along with Benito Aragon, founded the New Mexico Mercury, an online platform featuring news, commentary and analysis from a variety of experts and writers around New Mexico. Its successor is the Mercury Messenger, the home of Price’s weekly column.

In 2004 Price's book Albuquerque: A City At The End of the World won the Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez Award for Historic Survey and Research.

In 2003, Price was awarded “Citizen Planner of the Year” by the American Planning Association of New Mexico.

In 1999, Price received the Humanist of the Year award from the Humanist Society of New Mexico.

In 1996, Price was given the first ever ACLU-NM First Amendment Award of excellence in journalism.

In 1989, he received the “Friend of the Environment” award from the New Mexico Conservation Voters Alliance.

In 1984, he received an award of merit from the New Mexico Society of Architects for architectural criticism.

And in 1975, Price was given the Governor's Cultural Properties Review Committee's award of honor for his “penetrating, provocative editorials in defense of New Mexico's cultural environment.”

Price was married to the artist Rini Price until her death in 2019. They have two sons and two grandchildren. He lives in the North Valley of Albuquerque, New Mexico.