Alejandro Murguía Biography

American writer

Alejandro Murguía (born August 15, 1949) is an American poet, short story writer, and editor. He is known for his writings about the San Francisco's Mission District.

He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches at San Francisco State University. In 2012, he was named San Francisco Poet Laureate.

Awards

• 1991, 2003 American Book Award
• 2012 San Francisco Poet Laureate

Works

• This War Called Love. City Lights Publishers. May 2002. ISBN:978-0-87286-394-1.
• The medicine of memory: a Mexica clan in California. University of Texas Press. 2002. ISBN:978-0-292-75267-2. Alejandro Murguía.
• Alejandro Murguía; Barbara Paschke, eds. (1983). Volcán: poems from Central America:: a bilingual anthology. Photographer Barbara Paschke. City Lights Books. ISBN:978-0-87286-153-4. Alejandro Murguía.
• Southern Front. Bilingual Review Press. March 1990. ISBN:978-0-916950-97-2.
• Jose Montoya, Alejandro Murguia (1972). El Sol y los de Abajo and other R.C.A.F. poems / Oracion a la Mano Poderosa. Photographer Adal. Ediciones Pocho-Che.
• Stray Poems: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 6. City Lights Publishers. May 2014. ISBN:978-0-87286-616-4.

Anthologies

• Manuel de Jesús Hernández-Gutiérrez; David William Foster, eds. (1997). "A Long Walk". Literatura chicana, 1965-1995: an anthology in Spanish, English, and Caló. Taylor & Francis. ISBN:978-0-8153-2077-7.
• Chris Carlsson, ed. (2005). "Into the Fray". The Political Edge. City Lights Books. p.:53. ISBN:978-1-931404-05-1. Alejandro Murguía.

References

External links

• James Brook; Chris Carlsson; Nancy Joyce Peters, eds. (1998). Reclaiming San Francisco: history, politics, culture. City Lights Books. p.:225. ISBN:978-0-87286-335-4. Alejandro Murguía.