Laurie Ann Guerrero was born and raised in the Southside of San Antonio and is the author of four collections: Babies under the Skin (Panhandler 2008), A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying (University of Notre Dame Press 2013), A Crown for Gumecindo (Aztlan Libre Press 2015), and I Have Eaten the Rattlesnake: New & Selected (TCU Press 2021). Poet Laureate of the city of San Antonio (2014-2016) and the state of Texas (2016-2017), Guerrero holds degrees from Smith College and Drew University. She is an Associate Professor in Poetry and Gender Studies and is the Writer-in-Residence at Texas A&M University-San Antonio.