Filled with the nuanced beauty and complexity of the everyday, Guerrero's poems explore not just the right, but the ability to speak and fight for oneself, one's children, one's community.
A native of South Texas, Laurie Ann Guerrero is the author of Babies under the Skin, which won the 2008 Panhandler Publishing Chapbook Award. Her poetry and criticism have appeared in a number of journals. She teaches for the MFA Program at the University of Texas at El Paso, University of the Incarnate Word, and Palo Alto College in San Antonio, Texas.