Luis alberto urrea biography of william

American poet

Luis Alberto Urrea (born August 20, 1955 in Tijuana, Mexico)^[1] is a Mexican-American poet, novelist, and essayist.

Life

Luis Urrea is the son of Alberto Urrea Murray, of Rosario, Sinaloa, Mexico and Phyllis Dashiell, born in Staten Island, New York.

He was born in Tijuana, Mexico, and listed as an American born abroad.^[1] Both his parents worked in San Diego. The family moved to Logan Heights in South San Diego, because he had tuberculosis and they felt he would recover in the US.^[1][2] The family moved again in 1965 to Clairemont, a newer subdivision in the city of San Diego.^[1] His mother encouraged him to write and encouraged him to attend college and to apply for grants that would help pay for his college education.^[2] He attended the University of California, San Diego, earning an undergraduate degree in writing in 1977.^[1] Urrea completed his graduate studie