B. 1975
ire'ne lara silva, a dark-skinned Latine/indigenous person is standing in front of a painting.

Photo courtesy of the poet.

ire’ne lara silva (she/they) is the 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate and the author of the poetry collections the eaters of flowers (Saddle Road Press, 2024), FirstPoems: ani’mal, INDíGENA, and furia (FlowerSong Press, 2021), Cuicacalli//House of Song (Saddle Road Press, 2019), Blood Sugar Canto (Saddle Road Press, 2016), and furia (Mouthfeel Press, 2010). They are also the author of the chapbooks Hibiscus Tacos (Alabrava Press, 2021) and Enduring Azucares (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015), and the short story collection flesh to bone (Aunt Lute Books, 2013), winner of the Premio Aztlán.

silva has received support from a 2021 Tasajillo Writers Grant and a 2017 NALAC Fund for the Arts Grant. They won the Alfredo Cisneros del Moral Award and the 2021 Texas Institute of Letters Shrake Award for best short nonfiction and were a fiction finalist for A Room of Her Own Foundation’s 2013 Gift of Freedom Award. She is currently a writer-at-large for Texas Highways magazine.