Poetry. Villanueva's poems fuse the personal and the political, anchoring the abstract in the sensual world and revealing a belief in the power of language to connect us to the world, to each other, and to ourselves. We are all witness to our human history, (from Witness), and Villanueva's witnessing takes the form of honest poems that employ a clarity of perception to inspire their readers. Villanueva won the Latino Literature Prize in 1994 for her book PLANET, and has written four other volumes of poetry, a collection of short stories, and two prize-winning novels.

Author City: San Miguel MEX

Alma Luz Villanueva is a novelist, poet, essayist, and writer of short fiction. Her work has won several awards including an American Book Award for her first novel, THE ULTRAVIOLET SKY, and a Latin American Writers Institute Award for poetry for PLANET with MOTHER, MAY I?. She lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.