Alejandro Murguia is a writer known for his poems about the Mission District of San Francisco. He is a two-time winner of the American Book Award for his books Southern Front and This War Called Love. In Southern Front, Murguia recounts his experiences as an international volunteer in the Nicaraguan Insurrection of 1979. He is a founding member of the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, a multicultural, multidisciplinary arts organization dedicated to Latino art forms.