Laurie Ann Guerrero received the Academy of American Poets' Prize, among others, at Smith College.  Her poetry and critical work have appeared or are forthcoming in Boxcar Review, Acentos Review, Palo Alto Review, BorderSenses, Global City Review, Literary Mama, Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, Feminist Studies and others.  Born and raised in the Southside of San Antonio, Guerrero holds a B.A. in English Language & Literature from Smith College and an MFA from Drew University. Guerrero's first book, Babies Under the Skin, won the Panhandler Publishing Chapbook Award, chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye.  Guerrero teaches critical & creative writing at Palo Alto College.  

Laurie Ann Guerrero to receive
2012 National Institute of Staff and Organization Development
(in association with Palo Alto College) 
 Excellence Award
in Teaching & Leadership 

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KIN CITY READING SERIES
Readers to include Carrie Fountain, Abe Louise Young, Mariana Aitches, Naomi Shihab Nye, Assef Al-Jundi, ire'ne lara silva, Marian Haddad, and Laurie Ann Guerrero

Next reading in San Antonio
Saturday, January 21, 2012
@ The Twig Bookstore
3pm

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        NATIONAL POETRY MONTH!

 ATTA GIRL PRODUCTIONS
 presents a staged reading of
 A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying:
 poems and prose by Laurie Ann Guerrero
 Saturday, April 14, 2012
 Time: TBA    

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Resistencia Bookstore Oct. 28 7pm
 

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BOXCAR POETRY REVIEW 
          

    Laurie Ann reviews Heredities
and interviews author,
J. Michael Martinez

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¡Felicitaciones! to the CantoMundo 2011 Fellows

Millicent Bórges Accardi
Diana Marie Delgado
Carolina Ebeid
Benjamín A. García
Rodney Gomez
Laurie Ann Guerrero
Leticia Hernández-Linares
Manuel Paul López
Carl Marcum
Juan J. Morales


J. Michael Martinez, Carl Marcum, Ire'ne Lara Silva, Diego Baez, Oscar Bermeo, Eduardo Corral, Gloria Amescua, Benjamin Garcia, Vikas Menon, Juan Morales, Deborah Paredez, Pablo Miguel Martinez, Carmen Tafolla, Barbara Curiel, Celeste Guzman Mendoza, Laurie Ann Guerrero, Leticia Hernandez, Naomi Ayala, Benjamin Saenz, Manuel Paul Lopez, Norma Cantu, Diana Delgado, Frincisco Aragon, Sheryl Luna, Amalia Ortiz, Cynthia Cruz, Carolina Ebeid, Millicent Borges Accardi & Luivette Resto

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Laurie Ann was also named a
2011 MACONDISTA,
 member of the
Macondo Writers' Workshop