holloway.english.berkeley.edu/ LORNA DEE CERVANTES is an internationally acclaimed poet. Recipient of the Lila Wallace/Readers Digest Writers Award, 2 NEA Fellowship Grants, 2 Pushcart Prizes (another nominated this year) & "Best Book" awards for Emplumada ('81), From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger ('91), and the 5-volume Drive: The First Quartet ('06) which was nominated for a Pulitzer, her new books are Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems ('11), Stunned into Being: Essays On the Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes ('11), and the forthcoming Something of the Cruelest. A California native, born in The Mission, Cervantes was the former Director of Creative Writing at CU- Boulder where she was a Professor of English for 19 years. This year's UC Regents Lecturer at Berkeley, she is home again in the Bay Area writing fiction, essays, poetry & screenplays.

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