Lucha Corpi

Sino ito?

Lucha Corpi is a Chicana poet and mystery writer. She was born on April 13, 1945, in Jaltipan, Veracruz, Mexico. In 1975, she earned a B.A. degree in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1979, she earned an M.A. in comparative literature from San Francisco State University. Corpi's most important contribution to Chicano literature, a series of four poems called "The Marina Poems", appeared in the anthology The Other Voice: Twentieth-Century Women's Poetry in Translation, which was published by W. W. Norton & Company, in 1976. She tends to write her short stories in English and her poems in Spanish.

Career

1. 1945
   Born
2. Won National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Trivia

• •Known as: poet, novelist, writer, prose writer