ire’ne lara silva

ire’ne lara silva, 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate, is the author of five poetry collections: the eaters of flowers (Saddle Road Press, 2024); FirstPoems (Flowersong Press, 2021); CUICACALLI/House of Song (Saddle Road Press, 2019); Blood Sugar Canto (Saddle Road Press, 2016); and furia (Mouthfeel Press, 2010). Her two chapbooks are Hibiscus Tacos (Alabrava Press, 2021) and Enduring Azucares (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015). ire’ne recently released her first comic book, VENDAVAL (Chispa Imprint of Scout Comics, 2024). She is the recipient of a 2021 Tasajillo Writers Grant, the 2021 Texas Institute of Letters Shrake Award for Best Short Nonfiction, a 2017 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant, the final Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award, and was the Fiction Finalist for AROHO’s 2013 Gift of Freedom Award. Her short story collection, flesh to bone (Aunt Lute Books, 2013), won the Premio Aztlán and the short story collection, the light of your body, will be published by Arte Publico Press in spring 2025. ire’ne is currently a Writer at Large for Texas Highways Magazine.