Laurie Ann Guerrero

Laurie Ann Guerrero is an award-winning Chicana poet from San Antonio, Texas. A past poet laureate of San Antonio, she is the current Poet Laureate of Texas.

Early life

Guerrero was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. She received her BA from Smith College, where she was an Ada Comstock Scholar,^[1] and her MFA from Drew University.^[2]

Career

Guerrero is the author of two full collections of poetry. Her first collection, a chapbook of poetry, Babies Under the Skin (2008), won the Panhandler Publishing Award, chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye.^[3] In 2012, Guerrero's manuscript A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying was chosen by Francisco X. Alarcón as the winner of the Letras Latinas Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. It was published by University of Notre Dame Press in 2013. Her second book, A Crown for Gumecindo, a crown of sonnets was published by Aztlan Libre Press in 2015.

Guerrero has served on the faculty at University of the Incarnate Word, University of Texas-El Paso, Palo Alto College, and Gemini Ink, a community-centered literary arts organization in San Antonio. She is the current director of the Macondo Writers Workshop founded by Sandra Cisneros.^[4]

In 2014 Guerrero was appointed by Mayor Julián Castro to serve as the second Poet Laureate of City of San Antonio, Texas.^[5] In 2016 she was appointed the 53rd Poet Laureate of the State of Texas.^[6]

Books

• Babies Under the Skin, (2008)
• A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying, University of Notre Dame Press, (2013)
• ''A Crown for Gumecindo, Aztlan Libre Press (2015)

References

External links

• Author website
• Author page at Poets & Writers
• "Getting to Know Texas Poet Laureate Laurie Ann Guerrero" San Antonio Current, October 28, 2015
• Poetry and Profile at Poetry Foundation website
• "What I learned from my city" TED Talk by Laurie Ann Guerrero