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American poet

Alma Luz Villanueva (born October 4, 1944 in Lompoc, California) is an American poet, short story writer, and novelist.

Life

Her Mexican grandfather edited a newspaper in Hermosillo, Mexico, and was a published poet. Her maternal grandmother, a Yaqui Indian curandera/healer (as was her mother) from Sonora, raised her in the Mission District of San Francisco.^[1]

She taught at University of California Santa Cruz, Cabrillo College, Naropa Institute, Mesa College, University of California, San Diego, Stanford University, Pacific University, and Antioch University Los Angeles. She lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.^[2]

Awards

• 1989 American Book Award for the novel The Ultraviolet Sky
• PEN Oakland fiction award, 1994, for the novel Naked Ladies
• Latino Literature Prize, New York, 1994, for poetry, Planet
• The Best American Poetry, 1996, for poem, “Crazy Courage”
• 1976-1977 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize^[3]

Works

Anthologies

• Terry Beers, ed (2012). "Califlora, A Literary Field Guide." Excerpt from novel, "Luna's California Poppies." Heyday Books. ISBN 978-1-59714-161-1
• Robert Shapart, James Thomas, Ray Gonzalez, eds (2010). "Sudden Fiction Latino." Short story, from book, "Weeping Woman, La Llorona," "People of the Dog." W.W. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-33645-0
• J. Sterling Warner, Judith Hillard, eds (2009). "Visions Across the Americas: Short Essays for Composition." Wadsworth Press. ISBN 978-1428263772
• Jose Gurpegui, ed (2009). Camino Real. Universidad de Alcala- Madrid, Spain. ISSN 1889-5611
• "Pembroke Magazine, Number 40" (University of North Carolina, 2008)^[4]
• Mary Frosch, ed. (2008). Coming of Age In The 21st Century. New Press. ISBN . Story from "Weeping Woman, La Llorona."
• Stephanie Fetta, ed. (2008). "To Jesus Villanueva, with Love; I Was a Skinny Tomboy Kid; There Were Times". The Chicano/Latino literary prize: an anthology of prize-winning fiction, poetry, and drama. Arte Publico Press. ISBN .
• Cris K A DiMarco, ed. (2007). Solamente en San Miguel. Windstorm Creative. ISBN .
• Susan Koppelman, ed (2003). Between Mothers and Daughters: Stories Across Generations. The Feminist Press. ISBN 978-1-55861-459-8
• J. Excerpt from novel, "Naked Ladies". H. Blair, ed. (2002). Caliente: The Best Erotic Writing in Latin American Fiction. Berkley Books. ISBN .
• Rick Heide, ed. (2002). "La Llorana / Weeping Woman". Under the fifth sun: Latino literature from California. Heyday Books. p. 481. ISBN .
• Constance Warloe, ed. (May 1, 2001). From Daughters and Sons To Fathers. Story Line Press. ISBN .
• Neil Philip, ed. (2001). It's a Woman's World: A Century of Women's Voices in Poetry. Dutton. ISBN .
• Lauri Umansky; Michelle Plott, eds. (2000). "Blood Ties". Making Sense of Women's Lives: An Introduction to Women's Studies. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN .
• Elizabeth Roberts; Elias Amidon, eds. (1999). Prayers For A Thousand years. HarperSanFrancisco. ISBN .
• Burleigh Muten, ed (1999). Her Words: Anthology of Poetry About The Great Goddess. Shambhala. ISBN 978-1-57062-473-5
• Manuel de Jesús Hernández-Gutiérrez; David William Foster, eds. (1997). "Trust". Literatura chicana, 1965-1995: an anthology in Spanish, English, and Caló. Taylor & Francis. ISBN .
• Burleigh Muten, ed (1997). Return of The Great Goddess. Stewart, Tabori, Chang. ISBN 978-1556706080
• Constance Warloe, ed. (1997). I've Always Meant To Tell You, Letters To Our Mothers. Pocket Books. ISBN .
• Adrienne Rich; David Lehman, eds. (1996). The Best American Poetry 1996. Scribner. ISBN .
• Lillian Castillo-Speed, ed. (1995). Latina: Women's Voices from the Borderlands. New York: Touchstone Press. ISBN .
• Roberta Fernández, ed. (1994). "An Act of creation; Trust; Indian Summer Ritual". In other words: literature by Latinas of the United States. Arte Publico Press. p. 247. ISBN .
• Erica Bauermeister; Jesse Larsen; Holly Smith (1994). 500 Great Books by Women. Penguin Books. ISBN .
• Annie Finch, ed. (1994). A Formal Feeling Comes. Story Line Press. ISBN .
• Unsettling America. Penguin Books. 1994. ISBN . (reprint 2008)
• Ray González, ed. (1992). Mirrors Beneath The Earth. Curbstone Press. ISBN .
• Janine Canan, ed (1989). She Rises Like The Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women. Crossing Press. ISBN 978-0-89594-353-8
• Alfonso Rodríguez; Santiago Daydí-Tolson, eds. (1985). Five Poets of Aztlan, Epic poem, "La Chingada.". Bilingual Press. ISBN .
• Florence Howe; Ellen Bass, eds. (1973). No More Masks!. Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Press. ISBN . (reprint HarperPerennial, August 1993, ISBN 0-06-096517-7)

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