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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. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1979 she earned a 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 (ISBN: 9780393044218).

Biography
In 1964 she married Guillermo Hernández and they immigrated to the United States so that he could study at the University of California at Berkeley. They divorced in 1970 and she started taking classes at the University of California at Berkeley where she got her BA in comparative literature. From 1970-71 she was the vice-chair of Chicano Studies executive committee at University of California, Berkeley. From 1970-72 she was the coordinator of Chicano Studies Library. She is a founding member, Aztlán Cultural and Centro Chicano de Escritores. She is a member of the Oakland Museum and Latin American Commission.

Selected Works

 * Fireflight: Three Latin American Poets, With Elsie Alvarado de Ricord and Concha Michel, Oyez, 1976.
 * Palabras de mediodia/Noon Words, Fuego de Aztlan, 1980 ISBN: 9781558853225
 * Delia's Song, Arte Publico, 1989 ISBN: 9780934770828
 * Cactus Blood, Arte Publico, 1995 ISBN: 9781558851344
 * Where Fireflies Dance, Children's Book Press, 1997 ISBN: 9780892391776
 * Black Widow's Wardrobe, Arte Publico, 1999 ISBN: 9781558852884

Awards

 * National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship in 1979
 * First place in the Palabra Nueva literary competition for her short story, "Los cristos del alma," in 1983
 * First place in the Chicano Literary Contest held at the University of California, Irvine, in 1984
 * Her first mystery novel, Eulogy for a Brown Angel, which won the Multicultural Publishers Exchange Best Book of Fiction award in 1992.
 * PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Prize in fiction
 * Named poet laureate at Indiana University Northwest