13 Facts About Nina Serrano

Nina Serrano was born on 1934 and is an American poet, writer, storyteller, and independent media producer who lives in Vallejo, California.

Nina Serrano's poems are widely anthologized, including the literary anthology, Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Writers from California, and three anthologies of peace poems edited by Mary Rudge from Estuary Press.

Nina Serrano has translated two chapbooks from Peruvian poet Adrian Arias.

Nina Serrano currently leads storytelling workshops at senior centers and elementary schools through Stagebridge.

Nina Serrano is the former director of the San Francisco Poetry in the Schools program and the Bay Area's Storytellers in the Schools program.

Nina Serrano grew up in Latino and other immigrant communities in New York City.

Nina Serrano trained in theater, studied anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and traveled with student peace groups to Soviet Russia and revolutionary China in the 1950s.

Nina Serrano helped make movies about Fidel Castro's Cuba, about Salvador Allende's Chile and Sandinista Nicaragua.

Nina Serrano wrote a series of articles on the Los Siete trial and wrote poetry published in the San Francisco Good Times.

Nina Serrano wrote her first book of poetry, Heart Songs, during this period, and it was published in 1980.

Nina Serrano was awarded Oakland Magazine's "Best Local Poet" award in 2010.

Nina Serrano served as an Alameda County Arts Commissioner, and is a former director of San Francisco's Poetry in the Schools program.

Nina Serrano was a co-founder of the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco's Mission District, where she is still actively involved.