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Naomi Helena Quiñonez
Naomi Helena Quiñonez is the author of three collections of poetry: Exiled Moon, The Smoking Mirror and Hummingbird Dream/Sueño de Colibri. She is a recent recipient of the City of...view moreNaomi Helena Quiñonez is the author of three collections of poetry: Exiled Moon, The Smoking Mirror and Hummingbird Dream/Sueño de Colibri. She is a recent recipient of the City of Berkeley Lifetime Achievement Award in Poetry, the American Book Award, a Rockefeller Fellowship, a California Arts Grant and is a San Francisco Yerba Buena Center for the Arts honoree. Her poems have appeared In Xochitl in Cuicatl: Floricanto: 100 years of chicanx/latinx poetry, Voices from the Ancestors: Xicanx and Latinx Spiritual Expressions, The Colorado Review, Infinite Divisions and From Totems to Hip Hop to name a few. Quiñonezco-edited Invocation L.A: Urban Multicultural Poetry and Decolonial Voices: Chicana and Chicano Cultural Studies in the 21st Century. She has been a featured poet for numerous readings throughout the U.S., Mexico, Cuba and Spain. Quiñonez holds a PhD in American history and contributes to the scholarship of Chicana/Latina women. She is featured in Notable Hispanic Women and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. She currently lives in the Bay Area.view less