Ada Comstock & Smith Scholar, Laurie Ann Guerrero, to read at Smith College 
http://www.smith.edu/news/2007-08/LaurieGuerrero.php


AWARDS/HONORS:

2012 Award for Teaching and Leadership Excellence, National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development in association with Palo Alto College

2011 MACONDISTA, Member of Macondo Writers' Workshop, founded by Sandra Cisneros, San Antonio, TX

2011 CantoMundo Fellow, Austin, TX

2011 Round Top Scholar, Round Top Poetry Festival, Round Top, TX

2011 Named by SA Current as “Writer to Watch”

2010 NATIONAL WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH HONOREE: Women Who Make a Difference, Palo Alto College

2011 Collaboration with visual artist, Katherine Brown: 100 Palabras, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, "Sonnet of the Self"

2010 Andres Montoya Poetry Prize, finalist and honorable mention (for Blood & Tongues)

2009 Artist-in-residence at Alma de Mujer Center for Social Change, project of the Indigenous Women's Network, Austin, TX

2008 Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize from Smith College

2008 Valeria Dean Burgess Stevens Poetry Prize for the Study of Women & Gender at Smith College

Three-time winner of the Rosemary Thomas Poetry Prize from Smith College, 2006, 2007, 2008

2008 Winner of Panhandler Publishing Chapbook Competition for Babies Under the Skin, selected by Naomi Shihab Nye

2008 Ruth Lily Poetry Fellowship Nominee, Poetry Foundation via Smith College

2007 Smith College Representative at Five College Poetryfest (Hampshire, Amherst, Mt. Holyoke, Smith Colleges and University of Massachusetts at Amherst)  

2007 Jeanne McFarland Prize for Poetry for the Study of Women & Gender at Smith College

2007 Ruth Dietrich Tuttle Prize for Poetry from the Office of the Dean, Smith College

2005 Kulupi Press Chapbook Competition, finalist (for Amor y Fuego: Poems From South Texas) 

2004 National Society of Art & Letters, San Antonio Chapter, Poetry Finalist

2003 Gemini Ink Mentorship Program Scholarship winner, mentored by Barbara Ras