Career
She is the author of Heartsongs: The Collected Poems of Nina Serrano (1980) and Pass it on!: How to start your own senior storytelling program in the schools (Stagebridge). Her poems are widely anthologized, including the literary anthology, Under the Fifth Sun: Latino Writers from California (Heyday Books), and three anthologies of peace poems edited by Mary Rudge from Estuary Press. She translated two chap books from Peruvian poet Adrian Arias.
She currently leads storytelling workshops at senior centers and elementary schools through Stagebridge.org.
Serrano served as an Alameda County Arts Commissioner, and is a former director of San Francisco"s Poetry in the Schools program In addition, she is a long-time producer of radio programs on Pacifica Radio station KPFA (941 FM) in Berkeley, California, currently hosting Louisiana Raza Chronicles on Tuesdays at 7:00 p.m. and Open Book the first Friday of each month at 3pm Socialist Workers Party. Nina Serrano appears in the video Frida en el espejo/Frida in the Mirror" by Adrian Arias and music by Greg Landau to be shown at the San Francisco Film Festival in April 2009.
She is a great fan of band Carne Cruda and their new song Oakland"s Tight. She is consultant for Round World Media and Fig Leaf Technologies.
