Join us for an afternoon with poets ire’ne lara silva, Natalia Treviño, and Leslie Contreras Schwartz (left to right, below).

ire’ne lara silva is the author of two poetry collections, furia and Blood Sugar Canto, and a short story collection, flesh to bone, which won the Premio Aztlán. She and poet Dan Vera are the co-editors of Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands. Her new collection of poetry, CUICACALLI/House of Song, is forthcoming (March 2019).

Born in Mexico, and raised in Texas, Natalia Treviño is a professor at Northwest Vista College in San Antonio and the author of VirginX and Lavando La Dirty Laundry. Raised between two worlds, she bridges understandings between those separated by arbitrary borders. She has won several awards for her writing.

Leslie Contreras Schwartz is a multi-genre writer whose latest collection of poems, Nightbloom & Cenote (St. Julian press, 2018), was released in May. Her work has recently appeared in Verse Daily, Rogue Agent, The Collagist, Catapult, The Texas Review, and Tinderbox Poetry Journal, among others.