Alma Luz Villanueva

Alma Luz Villanueva (born October 4, 1944 in Lompoc, California) is an American poet, short story writer, and novelist.

Life Her Mexican grandfather edited a newspaper in Hermosillo, Mexico, and was a published poet. Her maternal grandmother, a Yaqui Indian curandera/healer (as was her mother) from Sonora, raised her in the Mission District of San Francisco.

She taught at University of California Santa Cruz, Cabrillo College, Naropa Institute, Mesa College, University of California, San Diego, Stanford University, Pacific University, and Antioch University Los Angeles. She lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

Awards 1989 American Book Award for the novel The Ultraviolet Sky PEN Oakland fiction award, 1994, for the novel Naked Ladies Latino Literature Prize, New York, 1994, for poetry, Planet The Best American Poetry, 1996, for poem, “Crazy Courage” 1976-1977 Chicano/Latino Literary Prize

Works Song of the Golden Scorpion. Wings Press. 2013.

The Ultraviolet Sky, republished with Doubleday, 1993.

Life Span (Place of Herons Press, 1985) Blood Root (Blue Heron Press, 1977)

Anthologies Terry Beers, ed (2012). "Califlora, A Literary Field Guide." Excerpt from novel, "Luna's California Poppies." Heyday Books. Robert Shapart, James Thomas, Ray Gonzalez, eds (2010). "Sudden Fiction Latino." Short story, from book, "Weeping Woman, La Llorona," "People of the Dog." W.W. Norton. J. Sterling Warner, Judith Hillard, eds (2009). "Visions Across the Americas: Short Essays for Composition." Wadsworth Press. Jose Gurpegui, ed (2009). Camino Real. Universidad de Alcala- Madrid, Spain. ISSN 1889-5611 "Pembroke Magazine, Number 40" (University of North Carolina, 2008) Story from "Weeping Woman, La Llorona."

Susan Koppelman, ed (2003). Between Mothers and Daughters: Stories Across Generations. The Feminist Press.

Burleigh Muten, ed (1999). Her Words: Anthology of Poetry About The Great Goddess. Shambhala.

Burleigh Muten, ed (1997). Return of The Great Goddess. Stewart, Tabori, Chang.

(reprint 2008)

Janine Canan, ed (1989). She Rises Like The Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women. Crossing Press.

(reprint HarperPerennial, August 1993, )