How I Put Myself through School

Laurie Ann Guerrero was born and raised in the Southside of San Antonio. She was an Ada Comstock Scholar at Smith College and took her MFA from Drew University. A CantoMundo fellow and member of the Macondo Writers Workshop, Guerrero has served on the faculty at the University of the Incarnate Word, University of Texas–El Paso, Palto Alto College, and Gemini Ink, a community-centered literary arts organization in San Antonio. She was appointed poet laureate of San Antonio in 2014, and poet laureate of the state of Texas in 2016.