Alejandro Murguía (born August 15, 1949) is an American poet, short story writer, and editor.^[1] He is known for his writings about the San Francisco's Mission District.^[2]

He lives in San Francisco, where he teaches at San Francisco State University.^[3] In 2012, he was named San Francisco Poet Laureate.^[4]

• 1991, 2003 American Book Award^[5]
• 2012 San Francisco Poet Laureate

• This War Called Love. City Lights Publishers. May 2002. ISBN 978-0-87286-394-1.
• The medicine of memory: a Mexica clan in California. University of Texas Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-292-75267-2. Alejandro Murguía.
• Alejandro Murguía; Barbara Paschke, eds. (1983). Volcán: poems from Central America : a bilingual anthology. Photographer Barbara Paschke. City Lights Books. ISBN 978-0-87286-153-4. Alejandro Murguía.
• Southern Front. Bilingual Review Press. March 1990. ISBN 978-0-916950-97-2.
• Jose Montoya, Alejandro Murguia (1972). El Sol y los de Abajo and other R.C.A.F. poems / Oracion a la Mano Poderosa. Photographer Adal. Ediciones Pocho-Che.
• Stray Poems: San Francisco Poet Laureate Series No. 6. City Lights Publishers. May 2014. ISBN 978-0-87286-616-4.