Jessica Helen Lopez is an award-winning performance poet. Lopez
facilitates spoken word performances and poetry workshops for
youth and adult writers/performers. A member of the Local Poet’s
Guild and the Macondo Writer’s Foundation, Lopez is also an
active participant/organizer for the City of Albuquerque Slam
scene. She began writing poetry in late 2005, when she first
started slamming upon invitation from poet Don McIver, host of
Albuquerque's popular Poetr2y and Beer event.
Born in Paramount, Calif., Lopez spent much of her youth in
Los Angeles and Long Beach until moving to Deming, New Mexico
with her family. She is the author of two chapbooks, Dangerous
Woman and La Catrina. She has collaborated on such spoken word
CDs such as Green Chile: Only in New Mexico and Strength
Vibrations. Lopez resides in the Albuquerque metro area with her
nine-year-old daughter and is pursuing a degree in creative
writing from the University of New Mexico.She is now named the City of Albuquerque Poet Laureate
