Alejandro Murgua

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Alejandro Murguía is the author of This War Called Love, Nine Stories, City Lights Books (winner of the American Book Award). In non-fiction he has published The Medicine of Memory: A Mexican Clan in California, University of Texas Press. He is a founding member and the first director of The Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. In 2013 City Lights Books published his new book Stray Poems. His short story “The Other Barrio” was recently released as a full-length feature, filmed in the streets of the Mission District. He was the Sixth San Francisco Poet Laureate and the first Latino to hold the post.

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