Awards/Publications

Laurie Ann Guerrero

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. --Plato

Awards/Publications

AWARDS/HONORS:

Andres Montoya Poetry Prize, finalist and honorable mention, 2010 (for Blood & Tongues)

Selected as artist-in-residence at Alma de Mujer Center for Social Change, project of the Indigenous Women's Network, Ausin, TX, March 2009 (for August 2009

Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize, May 2008

Valeria Dean Burgess Stevens Prize, Study of Women & Gender, Creative Nonfiction, May 2008

Three-time winner of the Rosemary Thomas Poetry Prize from Smith College, 2006, 2007, 2008

Winner of Panhandler Publishing Chapbook Competition for Babies Under the Skin, chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye (available Feb. 2008)

Nominated by Smith College Poetry Center for Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship

Smith College Representative at Five College Poetryfest, March 2007

Jeanne McFarland Prize, Study of Women & Gender, Smith College (poetry), 2007

Kulupi Press Chapbook Competition, finalist (for Amor y Fuego: Poems From South Texas)

National Society of Art & Letters finalist (poetry)

Ruth Dietrich Tuttle Prize from Smith College (creative nonfiction)

PUBLICATIONS:

Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review: "Put Attention" (Nov. 2009)

Global City Review: "The Way She Sees It"

chapbook, BABIES UNDER THE SKIN (Panhandler Publishing, 2008)

Feminist Studies: "Babies Under the House" and "Babies Under the Skin"

MERIDIANS: feminism, race, transnationalism (forthcoming): "How I Put Myself Through School"

The Weight of Addition: an Anthology of Texas Poets (Mutabilis Press, 2007): "Las Lenguas"

Texas Poetry Calendar 2008: "High Noon and Texas Beckons"

Silkworm: "The Dionicio Martinez Land Grant of 1834 & Other Things We Don't Question"

Palo Alto Review: "Texas in the Fall," "Late or Very Early," "Sundays After Breakfast"

Literary Mama: "As I Walk"

BorderSenses: "Los Americanos"

Texas Poetry Calendar 2007: "Remember the Alamo: Texas-Born Mexicans"

Culturas, San Antonio Express News: "As I Walk" and "Leaving Grandpa"

Voices Along the River, anthology "Star-Spangled Momma"

Echoes of Yesterday, anthology "Sixteen"

Selected as artist-in-residence at Alma de Mujer Center for Social Change, project of the Indigenous Women's Network, Ausin, TX, March 2009 (for August 2009 Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize, May 2008

Valeria Dean Burgess Stevens Prize, Study of Women & Gender, Creative Nonfiction, May 2008

Selected as artist-in-residence at Alma de Mujer Center for Social Change, project of the Indigenous Women's Network, Ausin, TX, March 2009 (for August 2009

Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize, May 2008