ire'ne lara silva, the 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate, is the author of four poetry collections, furia, Blood Sugar Canto, CUICACALLI/House of Song, and FirstPoems, and a short story collection, flesh to bone, which won the Premio Aztlán. ire'ne is currently a Writer at Large for Texas Highways Magazine and is working on a second collection of short stories titled, the light of your body. A new poetry collection, the eaters of flowers, is forthcoming from Saddle Road Press in January 2024. Her first comic book, VENDAVAL, will be released by the Chispa Imprint of Scout Comics in April 2024. http: //www.irenelarasilva.wordpress.com
