A fifth-generation Californian of Mexican and Native American (Chumash) heritage, Lorna Dee Cervantes has been a pivotal figure throughout the Chian@ literary movement, notably with "Mango", her literary journal and small press that brought many poets into print, including Sandra Cisneros. Her dynamic poetry shares kinship with that of Neruda in its engagement with political and natural forces. She is widely published, and has received two NEA poetry fellowships, a Lila Wallace Readers Digest fellowship, and two Pushcart prizes. She is the author of "Emplumada" (1981, American Book Award), "From the Cables of Genocide" (1991, Patterson Poetry Prize and the Latino Literature Award), and "Drive: The First Quartet" (2006, Pulitzer nominee and winner of the Balcones Poetry Award). A former associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she directed the Creative Writing Program, she now lives in the Mission in San Francisco.

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