Judy Lucero

Judy A. Lucero was a Chicana prisoner poet, cited as a legend among Latina feminists. Lucero had a particularly tough life, becoming a heroin addict after being introduced to drugs at the age of eleven by one of her stepfathers, losing two children and dying in prison in 1973 at the age of 27 from a brain hemorrhage. She had been serving a 1-5 year sentence for attempted forgery.²