Luis J. Rodriguez
Mexican-American

Born in 1954, raised in Los Angeles, moved to Chicago, and recently moved back to Loa Angeles. Involved in gangs since age 11.

Notable works: Poems Across the Pavement (1989), The Concrete River (1991), Trochemoche (1998), América Is Her Name (1998).

Founder of Tía Chucha Press, which publishes emerging, socially conscious poets.