Luis J. Rodriguez
Rodriguez served as Los Angeles Poet Laureate from 2014-2016. He's also founding editor of Tia Chucha Press and co-founder of Tia Chucha's Cultural Center & Bookstore in the San Fernando Valley. He's best known for the bestselling memoir "Always Running, La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A." His latest poetry book is "Borrowed Bones" from Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press.