Rate My Professor Laurie Guerrero

Laurie Ann Guerrero holds a B.A. in English Language and Literature from Smith College, where she graduated in 2008 as a Sophia Smith Scholar in Poetry and Creative Nonfiction, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Drew University in 2011. She served as Visiting Author in the MFA Program at the University of Texas at El Paso from spring 2013 to fall 2013, teaching CRW 5368 American Women Poets and CRW 5367 Advanced Poetry Writing, and later as Visiting Professor in the MFA Creative Writing Program from 2013 to 2014. Additional appointments include MFA Thesis advisor at UTEP in spring 2016, Visiting Author at institutions such as University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Texas State University, Smith College, and University of California-Davis, and Poet-in-Residence at Palo Alto College from 2014 to 2015. Currently, she is Associate Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence in the Department of Language, Literature, and Arts at Texas A&M University-San Antonio, teaching courses including Gender Studies: Writing as Resistance, Advanced Poetry Writing, and Contemporary American Women Poets.

Guerrero's poetry collections include Babies under the Skin (Panhandler Publishing, 2008), winner of the Panhandler Publishing Chapbook Competition; A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013), recipient of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize and International Latino Book Award; A Crown for Gumecindo (Aztlan Libre Press, 2015), winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Helen C. Smith Poetry Award; I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake: New and Selected Poems (TCU Press, 2021); and the forthcoming REDWORK (Autumn House Press, 2026), winner of the Autumn House Press Poetry Prize. Her poems and essays have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Indiana Review, Meridians, Huizache, and the San Antonio Express News, as well as anthologies. She has received numerous honors, including Poet Laureate of San Antonio (2014-2016), Poet Laureate of the State of Texas (2016-2017), Arts and Letters Award from Friends of the San Antonio Public Library (2018), and American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Outstanding Latino/a Cultural Award in the Literary Arts (2018). Guerrero has delivered lectures and readings at events including the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, Dodge Poetry Festival, and Hunan Normal University in China, contributing to literary communities through workshops and panels.