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Johnie Guerra
Johnie J. Guerra was born in Oklahoma during his father's military service in the U.S. Army at Fort Sill. His family hails from Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, and Brownsville, Texas. After completing his own military service at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, he fell in love with San Antonio and decided to make it his home. He earned a bachelor's degree in Mexican American Studies at The University of Texas at San Antonio, which sparked his poetry writing. His poetry reflects pride in Chicano identity and illuminates Chicano history. He employs English, Spanish, Spanglish, and Nahuatl and incorporates ancient Mesoamerican beliefs. His work seeks to
reveal what it means to be Chicano in the twenty-first-century United States.