Poet and painter TINO VILLANUEVA was born in San Marcos, Texas in 1941 to a family of migrant workers. After serving for two years as a supply clerk in the army, Villanueva earned a BA from Southwest Texas State University, an MA from SUNY-Buffalo, and a PhD in Contemporary Spanish Poetry from Boston University. He is the author of several poetry collections in both Spanish and English; his poems have been translated into Italian, French, German, Portuguese, Greek, and Korean. Until his retirement in 2015, Villanueva served as a senior lecturer in Spanish in the Department of Romance Studies at Boston University.