Luisa A. Igloria

Originally from Baguio City, Luisa A. Igloria was the 20th Poet Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia (2020-2022). In 2015, she was selected by former UK Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, Alice Oswald, and Jo Shapcott as the inaugural winner of the Resurgence Prize, the world's first major award for ecopoetry.

Igloria is the author of over a dozen books, including Caulbearer (Black Lawrence Press, 2024), Maps for Migrants and Ghosts (Southern Illinois University Press, 2020), The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis (Phoenicia Publishing, 2018), and Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser (Utah State University Press, 2014). Former US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey selected her chapbook What is Left of Wings, I Ask as the 2018 recipient of the Center for the Book Arts Letterpress Poetry Chapbook Prize. She co-edited two anthologies from Paloma Press: The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America’s Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders (2025), with Aileen Cassinetto and David Hassler; and Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States (2023), with Aileen Cassinetto and Jeremy S. Hoffman.

Igloria is a a Louis I. Jaffe Professor of English and Creative Writing and  teaches in the MFA Program at Old Dominion University. She also leads workshops for and is a member of the board of The Muse Writers Center in Norfolk.