She was recently nominated and accepted as a Fellow for the Rural Women's Collective, an inaugural Fellowship founded by Justice for Migrant Women. Lopez is also the founding coach of RezSpit Youth Poetry Collective, an all-Indigenous youth performance poetry group. A Chautauqua Scholar with the NM Humanities Council, Lopez is the founder of La Palabra - The Word is a Woman, an online intersectional and inclusive community with a focus on feminism and LGBTQ rights through the arts. Recipient of the Zia Book Award and the John Trudell Poetry and Activism Award presented by the San Bernadino Valley College, she is a Pushcart Prize nominee. PLAZA WAY, PLEASANT OAK CT, PLEASANT VIEW CIR, PLUM TREE PKWY. Her forthcoming fifth book will be published by UNM Press in Fall 2021. LANTERN RIDGE DR, LARGENT WAY, LARKWOOD TRL, LARSON CT, LARSON WAY, LASSITER DR. Author of four poetry collections, her most recent publication, "Provocateur," was released in Summer 2019 by Swimming With Elephants Publications. Jessica Helen Lopez is the City of Albuquerque Poet Laureate, Emeritus (2014-2016), and a current educator at the Native American Community Academy, as well as an instructor with the UNM Chicana and Chicano Studies Department.
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