Luisa A. Igloria is the winner of the 2015 Resurgence Prize (UK), the world's first major award for ecopoetry, selected by former UK poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion, Alice Oswald, and Jo Shapcott. She is the author of the chapbooks Haori (Tea & Tattered Pages Press, 2017), Check & Balance (Moria Press/Locofo Chaps, 2017), and Bright as Mirrors Left in the Grass (Kudzu House Press eChapbook selection for Spring 2015); plus the full length works Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser (selected by Mark Doty for the 2014 May Swenson Prize, Utah State University Press), Night Willow (Phoenicia Publishing, Montreal, 2014), The Saints of Streets (University of Santo Tomas Publishing House, 2013), Juan Luna's Revolver (2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize, University of Notre Dame Press), and nine other books. She teaches on the faculty of the MFA Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University, which she directed from 2009-2015.

Books by Luisa A. Igloria:

Other poems on the web by Luisa A. Igloria:
Six poems
"Swarm Migration"
Seven poems
Two poems
Two poems
Ten poems
Three poems
"Dear Federico"

Luisa A. Igloria's Website.

Luisa A. Igloria According to Wikipedia.

Luisa A. Igloria on Twitter.

About The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis:

"Luisa A. Igloria's elegant poems hold a humorous and truthful heart as an offering to the world. These are poems seasoned with such a wise understanding of this planet—giving us brighter and lighter moments where there is 'no weakness to confess our love of starry configurations, how we plot our movements by the shambled remnants of their distant light.'"
—Aimee Nezhukumatathil

"I always feel confident in Luisa A. Igloria's company — her poems are always well-crafted and full of heart. The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis is no exception, and is shot through with beautifully constructed phrases and spiritual truths. In it, we meet a version of the Buddha we can all relate to — one who admits that s/he is burnt out and decides to consult a therapist. These poems bring the Buddha down to earth and make it possible for us to make fresh contact with him and his teachings. I would urge you to spend time with all the life-affirming poems in this lovely collection."
—Satya Robyn

"Luisa A. Igloria's The Buddha Wonders If She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis combines the stunning emotional force of an opera singer in full flight, with the delicate, pinpoint accuracy of a haiku. These poems capture spherised moments of epiphany, and exquisite devastation — 'Every softness: forged by fire.' Their deft virtuosity is a triumph. Brava!"
—Ivy Alvarez

"Poet Luisa A. Igloria reimagines a 21st century Buddha with humor, compassion and wisdom in language that both startles and satisfies. Luisa's Buddha goes on the internet, sips Prosecco from a mason jar, fills out job applications, forgets to use caller ID, subs for a weekly advice columnist, and, as the title reveals, wonders if she is having a mid-life crisis. 'What would the Buddha say if he discovered his teenage son had an internet addiction?' the poet asks. This modern Buddha is both male and female, and both comedic and tragic, as s/he struggles to balance the daily absurdities of human greed and appetite with a simultaneous longing for beauty and transcendence."
—Tom Montgomery Fate