Laurie Ann Guerrero, author of
A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying

Laurie Ann Guerrero
Laurie Ann Guerrero received the Academy of American Poets Prize, among others, at Smith College. Winner of the 2012 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, her first full-length collection, A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying, selected by Francisco X. Alarcon, is forthcoming from the University of Notre Dame Press, 2013.

Guerrero's poetry and critical work have appeared or are forthcoming in Huizache, Texas Monthly, Acentos Review, Women's Studies Quarterly, Palo Alto Review, Global City Review, Texas Observer, 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 chapbook, Babies Under the Skin (2008), won the Panhandler Publishing Award, chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye. A CantoMundo fellow and member of the Macondo Writers' Workshop, she has recently joined the editorial staff at Austin-based Dos Gatos Press, publishers of The Texas Poetry Calendar. Guerrero is on the faculty at the University of the Incarnate Word and in the MFA in Creative Writing program at the University of Texas, El Paso.

a Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying

ISBN-13: 978-0268010478
Filled with the nuanced beauty and complexity of the everyday—a pot of beans, a goat carcass, embroidered linens, a grandfather’s cancer—A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying journeys through the inherited fear of creation and destruction.

The histories of South Texas and its people unfold in Laurie Ann Guerrero’s stirring language, including the dehumanization of men and its consequences on women and children. Guerrero’s tongue becomes a palpable border, occupying those liminal spaces that both unite and divide, inviting readers to consider that which is known and unknown: the body. Guerrero explores not just the right, but the ability to speak and fight for oneself, one's children, one's community—in poems that testify how, too often, we fail to see the power reflected in the mirror.

University of Notre Dame Press; 1st Edition

Liliana Valenzuela, author of
Codex of Journeys: Bendito Camino

Liliana Valenzuela
Valenzuela is the 2006 recipient of the Alicia Gordon Award for Word Artistry in Translation. An award-winning poet and essayist whose work has appeared in The Edinburgh Review, Indiana Review, Tigertail, and other journals and publications.

Valenzuela is also a dynamic performer, recently engaged to record the audiobook edition of La casa en Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros for Random House Audio. A past Director of the American Translators Association, she has translated literary works, art and photography books, museum catalogs, and web sites.

Liliana Valenzuela is the acclaimed Spanish language translator of works by Sandra Cisneros, Julia Alvarez, Denise Chávez, Nina Marie Martínez, Ana Castillo, Dagoberto Gilb, Richard Rodríguez, Rudolfo Anaya, Cristina García, Gloria Anzaldúa, and many other writers.

Born and raised in Mexico City, Liliana is an adopted Tejana. She received a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Cultural Anthropology and Folklore from the University of Texas at Austin, where she lives with her family.

Codex of Journeys: Bendito Camino

ISBN-13: 978-098304356
Journey into the world of borders, from Ghana to Cuba to Texas, Valenzuela weaves a road in forms of poetry, and we glimpse what it is like to be a woman of color in a world filled with cultural and gender insecurities.

Here are poems that cry out injustices and yet, celebrate the perfection of identity, self, and culture.

These are a Spanish and English collection, with some poems translated by Angela McEwan, award-winning translator.

Mouthfeel Press