Unfortunately, copies of the chapbook, Babies Under the Skin, are no longer available.  Thank you to Brazos Bookstore in Houston, Food For Thought Books in Amherst, MA , Broadside Bookshop in Northampton, MA and The Twig in San Antonio, TX for carrying and selling the book.

READINGS/RESIDENCIES

Thursday, March 24 
7:30 p.m.
Barnes & Nobel at La Cantera
in honor of Women's History Month

Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Time: TBA

Women’s Festival at The University of Texas at San Antonio in honor of Women's History Month

February 16, 2010
7:30 pm, $5
Lupe's Art Blend
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
1300 Guadalupe St.
San Antonio, TX 78207

Laurie Ann Guerrero
to read at
Lupe's Art Blend,
a monthly, mutidisciplinary presenting series
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16TH
Guadalupe Theater, 7:30 pm, $5

Panhandler Publishing in pleased to announce that Laurie Ann Guerrero's Babies Under the Skin has been selected as winner of the first Panhandler Publishing Chapbook Award.  The final judge for this contest was Naomi Shihab Nye. 

Laurie Ann Guerrero's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Palo Alto Review, BorderSenses, Global City Review, Literary Mama, Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, Feminist Studies and others.  Guerrero holds a B.A. in English Language & Literature from Smith College in Northampton, MA, and is an MFA candidate at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.  Her first book, Babies Under the Skin, won the Panhandler Publishing Chapbook Award, chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye.  Guerrero has worked as a writer-in-residence through Gemini Ink's Writer in the Communities program in San Antonio, and is currently teaching in the English department at Palo Alto College.  She divides her time between Texas and New Jersey.



                

Naomi Shihab Nye, the contest's final judge is the author of numerous books of poems including You & Yours (BOA Editions, 2005), which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, as well as 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (2002), Fuel (1998), Red Suitcase (1994), and Hugging the Jukebox (1982).  She received many awards from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Carity Randall Prize, the International Poetry Forum, as well as four Pushcart Prizes.  In 1988, she received The Academy of American Poets' Lavan Award, selected by W.S. Merwin.  She currently lives in San Antonio.