Angela de Hoyos
(b. 1940)

Angela de Hoyos has received various prizes and awards for her poetry. Her interest in words and language started at an early age. When she was three, living in Mexico where she was born, de Hoyos was severely burned by a gas heater. As she recovered from her accident, she spent long and difficult periods in bed. During this time, she developed her ability as a poet by working with rhymes and verses in her head. After the accident, de Hoyo's family moved to San Antonio, Texas. There, de Hoyo witnessed prejudice and inequality, two of the issues she would come to write about in her poetry.

De Hoyos studied fine arts and writing at several colleges and art institutes in San Antonio, Texas. By her early twenties, she had a promising future as a poet. She helped establish herself as a poet by giving readings at Mexican American gatherings in the Southwest. De Hoyo's first collection of poetry Arise, Chicano: and Other Poems was published in 1975. She has since published four more collections of poetry.

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