Georgina Marie Guardado

Poet

CA
California US
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Author's Bio

Georgina Marie Guardado is the Poet Laureate Emerita of Lake County, CA for 2020-2024, and a Poets Laureate Fellow with The Academy of American Poets. She is the Literacy Program Coordinator for the Lake County Library and President of the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference. She has received support from the Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference, Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Hugo House, and SF Writing Salon. Her work has appeared in The Bloom, Noyo ReviewPoets.org, Humble Pie Magazine, Gulf Coast JournalYellow Medicine Review, The Muleskinner Journal, Colossus: Freedom, and Two Hawks Quarterly. She is a graduate student and scholar of the Kwame Dawes Mapmakers and Master of Fine Arts Merit endowments at the Pacific University MFA in Writing program. 

 

Publications & Prizes

Chapbooks:
Restore , restoring community post-disaster through art (California Arts Council, 2019)
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Resilience, a community reframes disaster through art (California Arts Council, 2018)
Journals:
American Poets & Poetry
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Muleskinner Journal
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Noyo Review
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Prizes won: 
  • Kwame Dawes Mapmakers and Master of Fine Arts Merit endowments - Pacific University MFA in Writing 2023
  • Anne G. Locascio Scholarship - Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference 2020
  • Poets Laureate Fellowship - Academy of American Poets 2021
  • Brereton Scholarship - Napa Valley Writers' Conference 2021

 

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Latino/Latina/Latinx, Mixed-Race, Native American
Prefers to work with: 
At Risk Youth, Homelessness, Illness/Wellness, Immigration, Incarcerated individuals, LGBTQ, Mental Health, Naturalists/Environmentalists, Parents, Schools, Teachers, Teenagers, Women
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
CA
California
Raised in: 
CA
California
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Last update: Oct 27, 2024