Lorenzo Herrera y Lozano
LORENZO HERRERA Y LOZANO is the founder and publisher of Kórima Press. He is the author of the poetry collections, Amorcito Maricón and Santo de la Pata Alzada and co-author of Tragic Bitches: An Experiment in Queer Xicana & Xicano Performance Poetry (Kórima Press), which he co-wrote with Adelina Anthony and Dino Foxx. A member of the Macondo Writer’s Workshop, he is the editor of Queer Codex: Chile Love (allgo/Evelyn Street Press), and, Queer Codex: Rooted (allgo/Evelyn Street Press). His work has appeared in Mariposas: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry, For Colored Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Still Not Enough, and Queer in Aztlán, as well as the journals, ZYZZYVA and Yellow Medicine Review. Born in California, raised in Chihuahua, and trained in Texas, his creative and nonfiction writing seek both beauty and sorrow in their excavation of crevices created by the clashes and contradictions between the places, people, and ideas he has desired and loved.