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He lives in the San Fernando Valley with his wife, Trini, and his children, Ramiro, Andrea, Ruben, and Chito.
He was the Green Party\'s candidate for governor of California in 2014.
In addition to traveling extensively, he teaches every week at two maximum-security yards at Lancaster State Prison.
Thirty years ago he founded the well-respected Tia Chucha Press, which publishes mostly poetry collections, and he is co-founder of Tia Chucha\'s Cultural Center & Bookstore in LA\'s San Fernando Valley.
A script consultant for the FX drama Snowfall, he founded Barking Rooster Entertainment, a production company for original content for film, TV, and web.
He is the recipient of the Lila Wallace-Reader\'s Digest Writers Award, a Lannan Foundation Poetry Fellowship, a Carl Sandburg Book Award, the PEN Josephine Miles Literary Award, and more.
His most recent memoir, It Calls You Back, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2011.
Rodriguez is the author of fifteen works of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and children\'s literature, including Hearts and Hands: Creating Community in Violent Times and the acclaimed best seller Always Running.
About the Author Former poet laureate of Los Angeles (2014-2016) LUIS J.
One with beauty, healing, poetry, imagination, and truth." The pieces in From Our Land to Our Land capture that same fantastic energy and wisdom and will spark conversation and inspiration.
One for the shared well-being of everyone.
As he writes in the preface, "Like millions of Americans, I\'m demanding a new vision, a qualitatively different direction, for this country.
His passion and wisdom inspire us with the message that we must come together if we are to move forward.
Rodriguez writes about race, culture, identity, and belonging and what these all mean and should mean (but often fail to) in the volatile climate of our nation.
Description Luis J
