ire’ne lara silva (Texas State Poet Laureate, 2023) is the author of four poetry collections, two chapbooks, and a short story collection, flesh to bone, which won the Premio Aztlán. She is the recipient of a 2021 Tasajillo Writers Grant, 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.
Most recently, ire’ne was awarded the 2021 Texas Institute of Letters Shrake Award for Best Short Nonfiction. Ire’ne is currently a Writer at Large for Texas Highways Magazine and is working on a second collection of short stories.
You can find her at her own site.
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