Ire'ne lara silva

Ire'ne Lara Silva
Silva at the 2016 Texas Book Festival.
GenrePoetry/Fiction
Notable awardsNALAC Grant
Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award
AROHO Fiction Finalist
Gloria Anzaldúa Milagro Award

Ire'ne Lara Silva is a Chicana feminist poet and writer from Austin, Texas. Her parents were migrant farmworkers. She has published numerous works of poetry and her short story collection won the 2013 Premio Aztlán Literary Prize. A central theme of her work is Indigenous survival and perseverance despite colonization: "let's empower ourselves with that knowledge."

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