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With 10 nationally published books in memoir, fiction, nonfiction, children’s literature, and poetry, Luis J. Rodriguez has emerged as one of the leading Chicano writers in the country. Luis’s poetry has won a Poetry Center Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Literary Award, and Foreword magazine’s Silver Book Award, among others. His two children’s books have won a Patterson Young Adult Book Award, two Skipping Stones Honor Awards, and a Parent’s Choice Book Award, among others. His novel, Music of the Mill, was published in spring 2005 by Rayo/HarperCollins; his poetry collection, My Nature is Hunger: New & Selected Poems, 1989–2004, was released in fall 2005 from Curbstone Press/Rattle Edition.