About Laurie Ann Guerrero

​​Poet, essayist, and visual artist, Laurie Ann Guerrero was born and raised in the Southside of San Antonio and is the author of REDWORK, winner of the 2025 Autumn House Poetry Award, forthcoming in October 2026. Poet Laureate Emeritus of San Antonio (2014-16) and Texas (2016-2017), her award-winning collections, along with a volume of new & selected poems, include Babies under the Skin (Panhandler 2008), A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying (University of Notre Dame Press 2013), A Crown for Gumecindo, a collaboration with visual artist, Maceo Montoya (Aztlan Libre Press 2015), and I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake: New & Selected Poems (TCU Press 2021).  

Guerrero’s honors include a Panhandler Chapbook Award, the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize from the Institute of Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame, an International Latino Book Award, the Helen C. Smith Award for poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters, and NBC Latino listed hers as a must-read work of Chicano literature. Other honors include grants from the Artist Foundation of San Antonio, the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Foundation, and the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas A&M-San Antonio. Guerrero is a Harlandale Independent School District Hall of Fame Honoree and was the United States representative at Hunan Normal University’s opening of the British and American Poetry Research Center in Changsha, China.  

Guerrero holds a B.A. in English Language & Literature from Smith College and an MFA in poetry from Drew University. She is an Associate Professor and the Writer-in-Residence at Texas A&M University-San Antonio where she teaches writing and gender studies. Her poem, "Along the Medina," is on permanent display, spanning the height of two floors, in Business Library Hall on the Texas A&M-SA campus,  where she is currently at work on a novel set in both present day and 1800s San Antonio.