Nina Serrano

Nina Serrano: is an American poet, writer, storyteller, and independent media producer born in 1934 in New York City, growing up in Latino and other immigrant communities, who lives in Vallejo, California. She is the author of Heart Songs: The Collected Poems of Nina Serrano and Pass it on!: How to start your own senior storytelling program in the schools. She has undergone theater training, studied anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and traveled with student peace groups to Soviet Russia and revolutionary China in the 1950s.