Tino Villanueva is best known for his contributions to The Chicano Literary Resistance. Writing in both Spanish and English, he has published several collections of poetry, and has received both the American Book Award (1994) and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Texas State University at San Marcos (1995). He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University. (updated 7/2010)