Juan Felipe Herrera is a poet, performance artist and professor of Chicano and Latin American Studies at California State University, Fresno. He is known as one of the finest, most innovative, and most challenging Chicano poets today. Herrera grew up in California where he traveled with his migrant farm worker parents from harvest to harvest. He started writing poetry as a child and writes for both children and adults. Herrera has taught creative writing from third grade through the university level and is an Associate Professor of Chicano and Latin American Studies at California State University, Fresno.

"There is one constant over the past three decades in Chicano literature and his name is Juan Felipe Herrera. Aesthetically, he leaps over so many canons that he winds up on the outer limits of urban song. And spiritually, he is deep into the quest that we all must begin before it is too late."
—Ruben Martinez