Lorna Dee Cervantes
(b. 1954)

Lorna Dee Cervantes was born in San Francisco, California. She is of Mexican and Native American ancestry. By the time she was 12, Cervantes was reading aloud the works of the English Romantic poets, such as Byron, Keats, and Shelley, to get a feel for the rhythms of the English language. She wrote her first poem at the age of eight and put together her first collection of poetry at 15. She published some of these poems in her high school newspaper. Her first book of poetry, Emplumada, was very well received. It received an American Book Award in 1982. She has since become a professor of creative writing at the University of Colorado.

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