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                    Los Angeles born and raised Naomi Quiñonez is a poet, educator and activist.  She is the author of three collections of poetry, Hummingbird Dream/Sueño de Colibri, The Smoking Mirror and The Exiled Moon. A recent recipient of The City of Berkeley’s Lifetime Achievement Award in poetry, her work has appeared in many publications including the Colorado Review, Infinite Divisions and From Totems to Hip Hop. Quiñonez edited several critical and literary publications including Invocation L.A: Urban Multicultural Poetry, which won the American Book Award, Decolonial Voices: Chicana Chicano Studies in the 21^st Century and Caminos Magazine. She is cofounder of the Bay Area Librotraficante network, a founding member of the Los Angeles Barrio Writer’s Workshop and she offers poetry and literacy workshops to diverse communities in the California. Quiñonez holds a PhD in American History and contributes to the scholarship of Latino/as and women of color. She is the recipient of a Rockefeller Fellowship, the American Book Award, and a California Arts Grant, and is featured in Notable Hispanic Women and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. Quiñonez is part of a larger genre of U.S. writers of color and has appeared in programs with Quincy Troupe, Cherie Moraga and Luis Rodriguez.  She currently resides in Oakland, California, where lecturers in Ethnic Studies at CSU East Bay.         

For her latest book, see exiledmoon.com