Jessica Helen Lopez

Jessica Helen Lopez is the City of Albuquerque Poet Laureate, Emeritus (2014-2016), a NM Humanities Chautauqua Scholar, Rural Women's Collective Fellow at Justice for Migrant Women and the Zia Book Award Recipient for her inaugural poetry collection, Always Messing With them Boys (West End Press). She is also the author of The Blood Poems (University of New Mexico Press), The Language of Bleeding, Provocateur and cunt. bomb.(Swimming With Elephants Publications). An Adjunct Instructor with the...See more

Jessica Helen Lopez is the City of Albuquerque Poet Laureate, Emeritus (2014-2016), a NM Humanities Chautauqua Scholar, Rural Women's Collective Fellow at Justice for Migrant Women and the Zia Book Award Recipient for her inaugural poetry collection, Always Messing With them Boys (West End Press). She is also the author of The Blood Poems (University of New Mexico Press), The Language of Bleeding, Provocateur and cunt. bomb.(Swimming With Elephants Publications). An Adjunct Instructor with the University of New Mexico Chicana and Chicano Studies Department, Lopez also teaches at the Native American Community Academy High School, UNM Chicana and Chicano Studies Department and the Santa Fe Institute of American Indian Academy. A California born Chicana, Lopez resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. A six-time member of the ABQ Champion Winning Slam Team and two-time champion of the ABQ Women of the World Poetry Slam, Lopez is a member of the Macondo Foundation, an association of socially-engaged writers working to advance creativity, foster generosity, and serve community which was founded in 1995 by Mexican-American writer Sandra Cisneros. Lopez was the John Trudell Featured Activist Poet awarded by the San Bernardino College and is the editor of the photo-poetic anthology, La Palabra: The Word is a Woman and Earthships: A New Mecca Poetry Collection. Her poetry, academic research and book reviews have been published widely both in print and online. She is a single mama, Xingona, Jota, Pocha, and lover of lime paletas and fierce little chihuahuas. Visit her at jessicahelenlopezpoet.wordpress.com. See less