Title: Luz María Umpierre
Content:  Study Group, MLA in 1998 and promoted to Chair in 2002. ; Nominated for the Phyllis Franklin Humanities Award from the M.L.A. in 2002. ; Elected to the Division of Ethnic Studies of the Modern Language Association from 2000 to 2004 and the Delegate assembly from 2005 to 2007. ; Distinguished Woman Leader of Maine, 2008. ; Nominated for the 2010 inclusion to the Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. ; Nominated for Pioneer Award From LAMBDA in 2013. ; Nominated for a South Korean International Award for Human Rights Activism, being the only Puerto Rican Lesbian having been nominated (decision expected in May, 2014) 
Title: Luz María Umpierre
Content:  Luz María "Luzma" Umpierre-Herrera (born 1947 in Santurce, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican human rights advocate, New-Humanist educator, poet, and scholar. Umpierre-Herrera works on the topics of activism and social equality, the immigrant experience and bilingualism in the United States, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) issues. Umpierre has published ten poetry books and has had numerous essays published in academic journals.
Title: Luz María Umpierre
Content:  rights. In 1992, she was accused by SUNY of "exposing students to homosexuality" for teaching literature from a Homocriticism view and was suspended for two years. She subsequently became homeless, yet continued her work as an advocate for equality in academia. Umpierre eventually relocated to Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, where she was an Associate Professor for Classic and Romance Languages and Literatures, along with Women Studies in 1998. She expanded the curriculum of this university as well, to include adding courses dealing with Latina Literature and Culture, Creative Writing, and Latin American Studies. She eventually left Bates College of her own choosing in 2002 to nurture her writing career and continue in promoting activist causes.
Title: Luz María Umpierre
Content:  on Washington, DC of 1987. This setback only reinforced her activism regarding LGBT Studies, as she's continued to be an activist for the inclusion of LGBT topics in academia. After leaving Rutgers, she worked as Head and Professor of the Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies and Folklore at the Western Kentucky University (WKU). It was while working at WKU, that Umpierre received the "Woman of the Year" award. She continued to work with the underprivileged and societal outcasts. In 1992, she became a faculty member at the State University of New York –Brockport (SUNY) and was a Professor of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Again, she was met with academic backlash for her activism in 
Title: Luz María Umpierre
Content:  Umpierre has published six books of poetry and two chapbooks or "hojas poéticas." She has received critical attention, particularly from women, feminist and queer scholars. Umpierre is a bilingual poet who writes in English and Spanish and sometimes mixes both languages in the same poem. Her work was published by tatiana de la tierra in de la tierra's bilingual magazine, Esto no tiene nombre, for Latina lesbians. She also supported de la tierra's other magazine, conmoción, which was a continuation and expansion of esto meant to be a platform for conversation about Latina lesbians through publishing work like Umpierre's. In her work, she establishes a 
Title: Luz María Umpierre
Content:  She earned her B.A., with honors, in Spanish and Humanities from the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in 1970. In 1976, she received her M.A. in Spanish (Caribbean Literature) from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, where we also completed her Ph.D. in Spanish (1978). She has also completed Post Doctoral Studies in the Fields of: Literary Theory at the University of Kansas (1981-1982), University Administration (Recruitment and Retention of Minorities) as a State of New Jersey/Woodrow Wilson International Center Fellow (1986), and Management and Policy at the New School for Social Research, Milano School-Syracuse Campus (1995-1996). After receiving her Ph.D. in 1978, Umpierre went on to teach at several institutions. She was the first Puerto Rican to receive 
Title: Luz María Umpierre
Content:  Luz María Umpierre was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, in 1947, and grew up in a working-class neighborhood called "La veintiuna" (Stop 21) in a household with sixteen people. Her mother was born in Puerto Rico and grew up in New York City; for this reason, Umpierre was exposed to English and Spanish as a child. Her father was a government worker. Umpierre studied at the Sacred Heart Academy and at the Universidad del Sagrado Corazón, both in Puerto Rico, graduating from both with honors. After several years of teaching at the Academia María Reina in San Juan, Umpierre felt that she was in "sexile." The prejudice she experienced as an open lesbian in the island was one of the contributing factors to her moving to the mainland in 1974. As she followed her academic path, she was shocked to see that in the United States it wasn't just her sexual orientation that was prejudiced against, but also her Puerto Rican origin and ethnicity. These experiences made her decide to mentor underprivileged and exiled students, Puerto Rican-born like her and immigrant alike.
Title: Luz María Umpierre
Content:  by New York Chapter of the National Writers Union in 1993 ; Nominated for the Women's Hall of Fame, Seneca Falls, New York in 1994 and again in 2009. ; Chair, Feministas Unidas session at MLA convention on "Teaching Taboos in Hispanic Literature," Washington, D.C. in December 1996. ; Keynote speaker, Ford Foundation Annual Fellows Convention, Washington, D.C. in 1997. ; Member of NEH Committee at Bates College from 1998 to 2000. ; Nominated for the Martin Duberman Fellowship at CUNY in 2000. ; Keynote Speaker at Ohio University (Athens) on "Sexuality in Literature and Film Conference," in 2001. ; Elected to Governing Committee, Puerto Rican Literature and 
Title: Luz María Umpierre
Content: Una puertorriqueña en Penna. [Puerto Rico]: Master Typesetting of P.R., 1979. ; En el país de las maravillas (Kempis puertorriqueño). Bloomington, Ind.: Third Woman Press, 1982. ; . . . Y otras desgracias/And Other Misfortunes. . . Bloomington, Ind.: Third Woman Press, 1985. ; The Margarita Poems. Bloomington, Ind.: Third Woman Press, 1987. ; For Christine: Poems and One Letter. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Professional Press, 1995. ; Pour toi/ For Moira. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Mariita Rivadulla and Associates, 2005. ; Our Only Island—for Nemir. San Juan, Puerto Rico: Mariita Rivadulla Professional Services, 2009. ; I'm Still Standing: Treinta años de poesía/Thirty Years of Poetry, eds. Carmen S. Rivera and Daniel Torres. Orlando, FL and Fredonia, NY: www.luzmaumpierre.com and SUNY-Fredonia, 2011. 
Title: Luz María Umpierre
Content:  with many American, Latin American, and Puerto Rican women poets and writers such as Sylvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Julia de Burgos, and Sandra María Esteves. Noted among these is the poetical exchange she carried for years with Nuyorican minor poet Sandra María Esteves; this exchange was lauded in Europe and the US and was included in a special radio program of the MLA because of its uniqueness. Umpierre started out her poetry career with the publication of Una puertorriqueña en Penna (1979), whose title can be translated as "A Puerto Rican woman in Pennsylvania" or "A Puerto Rican woman 

Question: Verify the following claims with "True" or "False": She didn't. Luz Mara Umpierre did not have an award.
Answer: False