Irene Villaseñor

Irene Villaseñor examines art and culture, Indigeneity, injustice, community-building, care, and trauma. Her writing appears in Queer Nature: An Ecoqueer Poetry Anthology, My Phone Lies to Me: Fake News Poetry Workshops as Radical Digital Media Literacy, Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, 88 Open Essays: A Reader for Students of Composition and Rhetoric, and elsewhere. She’s received fellowships from the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, Lambda Literary, Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Irene has read her work at the Museum of the City of New York, the New School, and the Whitney Biennial.