ire'ne lara silva

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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."{{cite web |last=Cardenas |first=Cat |date=2019-10-21 |title=How Ire'ne Lara Silva Learned to Flip the Script |url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/how-irene-lara-silva-learned-flip-script/ |access-date=2023-01-20 |website=Texas Monthly }}

Early years

Silva grew up in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. Her parents were migrant farmworkers and she spent many years with her family moving "from South Texas to Mathis to Oklahoma to New Mexico to the Panhandle and back to South Texas."[http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/the-city-and-the-writer-in-austin-with-irene-lara-silva-nathalie-handal The City and the Writer: In Austin with Ire’ne Lara Silva], Nathalie Handal, January 28, 2016, Words Without Borders, Retrieved June 2, 2016

Writing career

Silva is the author of three chapbooks of poetry, two full-length books of poetry, and one short story collection. Her work has appeared in various journals, including Acentos Review, Pilgrimage, and Yellow Medicine Review and various anthologies including Improbable Worlds: An Anthology of Texas and Louisiana Poets and The Weight of Addition: An Anthology of Texas Poetry.

Silva's collection, blood sugar canto, was published by Saddle Road Press in January 2016. Silva served as co-editor with Dan Vera for IMANIMAN: Poets Reflect on Transformative & Transgressive Borders Through Gloria Anzaldúa's Work, published by Aunt Lute Books (2016).{{cite web|url=https://labloga.blogspot.com/2015/11/imaniman-anthology-call-to-poets-to.html|title=La Bloga: IMANIMAN Anthology: A Call to Poets to Reflect on Gloria Anzaldúa and Transformative/Transgressive Borders|first=Olga Garcia|last=Echeverria|date=November 15, 2015|accessdate=September 27, 2019}}

Awards and prizes

Her first full-length collection of poetry furia received an honorable mention for the 2011 International Latino Book Award. Her short story collection flesh to bone won the 2013 Premio Aztlán Literary Prize,{{cite web| url = http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/05/letras-latinas-presents-irene-lara-silva-in-conversation-with-elena-minor/| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140714044402/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/05/letras-latinas-presents-irene-lara-silva-in-conversation-with-elena-minor/| archive-date = 2014-07-14| title = Letras Latinas Presents ire'ne lara silva in Conversation with elena minor : Harriet Staff : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation}} {{Cite web |url=http://www.guadalupeculturalarts.org/irene-lara-silva/ |title=Ire'ne lara silva – Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center |access-date=June 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611162121/http://www.guadalupeculturalarts.org/irene-lara-silva/ |archive-date=June 11, 2016 |url-status=dead }} was a fiction finalist for A Room of Her Own Foundation's 2013 Gift of Freedom Award,"Artist Profile: ire'ne lara silva" Interview by Trevor Boffone, May 24, 2016 and was a finalist for Foreword Review's Book of the Year Award in Multicultural Fiction.{{cite web|url=https://www.forewordreviews.com/awards/books/flesh-to-bone/|title="Flesh to Bone" is a 2013 Foreword INDIES Finalist|website=www.forewordreviews.com|accessdate=September 27, 2019}}

Silva is the recipient of the 2014 Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award and the 2008 recipient of the Gloria Anzaldúa Milagro Award.{{cite web|url=https://www.wordswithoutborders.org/dispatches/article/the-city-and-the-writer-in-austin-with-irene-lara-silva-nathalie-handal|title=The City and the Writer: In Austin with Ire'ne Lara Silva|first=Nathalie|last=Handal|website=Words Without Borders|date=January 28, 2016 |accessdate=September 27, 2019}} Silva was a founding fellow of the CantoMundo Writers Conference.

From 2004 to 2008, Silva was the Executive Coordinator of the prestigious Macondo Writers Workshop, the workshop founded by Sandra Cisneros.{{Cite web|url=http://www.kwelijournal.org/poetry-1/2014/6/1/i-come-from-women-illiterate-and-rough-skinned-by-irene-lara-silva|title = I come from women illiterate and rough-skinned by Irene Lara Silva| date=December 2, 2009 }} She was a co-director of the Flor De Nopal Literary Festival.

Works

=Poetry=

ani'mal, La Loba Press, (2001), reprinted Axoquentlatoa Press, (2010)https://pen.org/irene-lara-silva?member {{dead link|date=September 2019}}
INDíGENA, La Loba Press, (2001), reprinted Axoquentlatoa Press, (2010)
furia, London: Mouthfeel Press, (2010)
Enduring Azucares, Little Rock: Sibling Rivalry Press, (2015)
blood sugar canto, Hilo: Saddle Road Press (2016)
Cuicacalli / House of Song, Saddle Road Press, 2019

=Short stories=

flesh to bone, San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books, (2013)

=As editor=

{{cite book| title=Imaniman: Poets Writing in the Anzaldúan Borderlands| publisher= Aunt Lute Books | date=2016| isbn=9781879960930}}, with Dan Vera and an introduction by United States Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera

References

External links

[http://www.irenelarasilva.wordpress.com Author website]
[http://www.pw.org/content/irene_lara_silva_1 Author page] at Poets & Writers
[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/05/letras-latinas-presents-irene-lara-silva-in-conversation-with-elena-minor/ Interview with the ire'ne lara silva] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714044402/http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2014/05/letras-latinas-presents-irene-lara-silva-in-conversation-with-elena-minor/ |date=July 14, 2014 }} on Poetry Foundation blog

Category:21st-century American poets

Category:21st-century American women writers

Category:Living people

Category:American people of Mestizo descent

Category:American poets of Mexican descent

Category:American women poets

Category:Chicana feminists

Category:Hispanic and Latino American autobiographers

Category:American autobiographers

Category:Lesbian feminists

Category:American lesbian writers

Category:LGBTQ Hispanic and Latino American people