San Antonio

“I unwrap hojas & spoon masa onto your tongue while the moon drops from the sky to light your teeth.”
| Ariana Brown

Adriana Abundis

activist | artist | educator | poet 

Isaac Alvarez Cárdenas

Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan | playwright | poet

Marcia Argueta Mickelson

author

Alfredo Ávalos

author

Esmeralda Baltazar

multi-media interdisciplinary artist

Gregg Barrios
1941-2021

artist | author | filmmaker 
| playwright | teacher

Dario Beniquez

poet | writer

Maria Antonietta Berriozabal

activist | author

Stephen Briseño

  author | poet

Ariana Brown

spoken word poet 

CantoMundo

national latinx poetry organization

Chifladxzine

zine | 
founded by cloud d. cardona & laura valdez

Cloud D. Cardona

illustrator | poet | 
Chifladazine co-founder

Jacinto “Jesse” Cardona

poet

Enedina Cásarez Vásquez

playwright | poet | visual artist

Isabel Ann Castro

co-founder St. Sucia zine | visual artist

V. Castro

author

Rosemary Catalacos
1944-2022

poet
| 2013–2014 Texas Poet Laureate

Samantha Ceballos-Sosa

poet | scholar | writer

Irene Chavez Galvan

playwright | poet | storyteller

Bonnie Ilza Cisneros

essayist | poet | writer

Vincent Cooper

poet

Steven Cordova

poet

Liz Coronado Castillo

activist | educator | performer | writer

Marisol Cortez

author | writer

Carlos Cumpián

poet

Santiago Daydi-Tolson

author | educator | poet

Ángela de Hoyos
1940-2009

literary activist | poet

Rosy I. De Hoyos

author

Nephtalí De León

painter | poet | writer
April-August 2023 San Antonio Poet Laureate

Anna De Luna 

actor | social justice activist | writer 

Yvette DeChavez

artist | educator | PhD | writer

Lucía Emauer

writer

Jonathan Fletcher

poet | writer

Amanda Flores

poet

Anel Flores

artist | author 

Anthony “The Poet” Flores

poet

Carolyn Dee Flores

author | illustrator | novelist

Fernando Esteban Flores

artist | writer 
| photographer | poet

Dino Foxx

activist | arts educator | spoken word poet 
| performer | writer 

Abril “Andi” Garcia-Linn

artist | performer | writer 

Victoria García-Zapata

activist | poet

Ignacio M. García

academic | author | memoirist 

Imelda García

performance artist | poet | writer

Lace Garcia

artist | poet

Lisha Adela García

poet

jonny garza villa

author

Eduardo C. Garza

performance artist | poet | writer

Violeta Garza

 artist | poet | weaver

Xavier Garza

artist | author | illustrator

Diane Gonzales Bertrand

author

Xelena González

Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan | author | poet | 
screenwriter | storyteller

Virginia Grise

activist | artist | curator | 
director | playwright 

Laurie Ann Guerrero

poet | professor |
 2016-2017 Texas Poet Laureate |
2014-2015 San Antonio Poet Laureate 

Katie Gutierrez

author | writer

Celeste Guzmán Mendoza

essayist | playwright | poet 

Natasha I Hernandez

writer | co-founder of St Sucia zine

Saúl Hernández

poet | writer

Carolina M. Hinojosa

poet | speaker | writer 

Celso Hurtado

author | writer

Joe Jiménez

poet

Tomás Julián
aka Rayner Shyne

spoken word artist | storyteller | poet

Latino Collection and Resource Center

San Antonio Public Library | 
600 Soledad St, San Antonio, TX 78205 

Laura M. López

educator | writer

Macondo Writers Workshop

community-serving |
MA level | socially-engaged
| founded by Sandra Cisneros in 1995

Arturo Mantecón

poet | translator | writer 

C. L. “Rooster” Martinez

spoken word poet | writer

Manuel Luis Martinez

literary critic | novelist

Pablo Miguel Martínez

cultural strategist | essayist | poet 

Josie Méndez Negrete

academic | author | memoirist 

José Luis Montalvo

Poet

Raymond Moreno

poet

Antonia Murguia

artist | poet

Josefina Niggli
1910-1983

playwright | poet

John Olivares Espinoza

poet

Emma Ortega
Grandmother Coyote

Lipan Apache & Carrizo/Comecrudo |
native artist | storyteller

Deborah Paredez

 cultural critic | poet | scholar

Severo Perez

filmmaker | playwright
| writer

Matthew Pineda

filmmaker | poet | writer 

Paul Pineda

folk artist | poet | writer

PuroSlam Poetry

performance art

Octavio Quintanilla

poet
| 2012-2014 Poet Laureate of San Antonio

Carolina Quiroga

author | storyteller | teacher artist | podcaster 

Bárbara Renaud González

activist | journalist | writer

jo reyes-boitel

essayist | playwright | poet

Rod Carlos Rodriguez

author | poet 

Amanda Rosas

poet

Lupe Ruiz-Flores

author

Daisy Salinas

activist | fest curator | punk musician | zinester
 | founder of Muchacha Fanzine

Consuelo Samarripa

 bilingual storyteller | consultant
performing artist | public speaker

Sabrina San Miguel

poet | storyteller

Aureleo Sans

writer

John Phillip Santos

author | filmmaker | journalist 
| producer

St Sucia 

zine |
co-founded by isabel ann castro & natasha hernandez

Carmen Tafolla

performance artist | poet | 
storyteller | professor 
| 2015 Texas Poet Laureate 
| 2012-2014 San Antonio Poet Laureate  

Sharyll Teneyuca

writer

Frances Treviño Santos

poet

Léo Treviño

activist | educator | poet | writer 

Natalia Treviño

poet | writer

Urban-15 Mega Corazón

annual performance event |
south texas-based spoken word

Anne Elise Urrutia

author | blogger | writer

Viktoria Valenzuela

activist | educator | writer

Margarita Valle Santikos

author | screenwriter

Eddie Vega (Taco-Poet)

educator | poet | spoken word artist | storyteller
 2024-2027 San Antonio Poet Laureate

Alex Samuel Velez

author | educator | poet

Ursula Villarreal-Moura

writer

Kirsty Ward

poet

Joyous Windrider Jiménez

performance poet | visual and theatre artist 
| workshop facilitator

Jen Yáñez-Alaniz

activist | educator | poet

Imelda Zapata-García

activist | poet 

Alicia Zavala Galván

artist | editor | independent scholar | 
playwright | poet