Alma Luz Villanueva

Alma Luz Villanueva (born 4 October 1944 Lompoc, California) is a Mexican-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.

She taught at University of California Santa Cruz, Cabrillo College, Naropa Institute, Mesa College, University of California, San Diego, Stanford University, Pacific University. She teaches at Antioch University Los Angeles in the MFA in Creative Writing Program, for the past fourteen years as of 2012. She lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

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

Works

• Song of the Golden Scorpion. Wings Press. 2013. ISBN 978-1-60940-346-1
• The Ultraviolet Sky, republished with Doubleday, 1993. ISBN 0-385-42014-5
• Life Span (Place of Herons Press, 1985)
• Blood Root (Blue Heron Press, 1977)

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)
• Story from "Weeping Woman, La Llorona."
• Susan Koppelman, ed (2003). Between Mothers and Daughters: Stories Across Generations. The Feminist Press. ISBN 978-1-55861-459-8
• Burleigh Muten, ed (1999). Her Words: Anthology of Poetry About The Great Goddess. Shambhala. ISBN 978-1-57062-473-5
• Burleigh Muten, ed (1997). Return of The Great Goddess. Stewart, Tabori, Chang. ISBN 978-1556706080
• (reprint 2008)
• 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
• (reprint HarperPerennial, August 1993, ISBN 0-06-096517-7)

External links

• http://spaceslitmag.com/2013/03/13/poetry-alma-luz-villanueva
• http://mandalapress.com/blog/?tag=alma-luz-villanueva
• "Author's website"
• http://www.almaluzvillanueva.blogspot.com "Author's blog"
• http://www.voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/villanuevaAlma.php