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Alberto Baltazar Urista Heredia born August 8, , better known by his nom de plume Alurista , is an American poet and activist. His work was influential in the Chicano Movement and is important to the field of Chicano poetry. Urista was born in Mexico City and attended primary school in Morelos. He went to the United States when he was thirteen, settling with his family in the border city of San Diego , California.

He graduated from high school in and began studying business administration at Chapman University in Orange County, California.

Chicano culture

He changed his major several times before earning a B. He went on to earn an M. His doctoral thesis was on the fiction of Chicano lawyer and author Oscar Zeta Acosta. He has also lectured and read his poetry in venues throughout the world. Urista's first experience writing poetry was as a student in Mexico, when he began writing love poems for his classmates as a way to earn money.

He began writing poetry for publication in