Description
Ire’ne Lara Silva, the 2023 Texas State Poet Laureate, is the author of five poetry collections, furia, Blood Sugar Canto, CUICACALLI/House of Song, FirstPoems, and the eaters of flowers; two chapbooks, Enduring Azucares and Hibiscus Tacos; and a short story collection, flesh to bone, which won the Premio Aztlan. Ire’ne 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. Her first comic book, Vendaval, was released in April 2024 from Scout Comics/Chispa. Tour offerings include keynote addresses, readings of all her published work, including poetry, essays, and short stories, and various writing workshops of varying lengths open to writers of all skill levels and genres. Topics include Gritos as the Source of Our Voices, Writing the Difficult, Dismantling Doubt, Forget Discipline: Wanting Your Way Through Writing, Contemplating Mortality, and The Stories Our Bodies Tell.
Additional information
| Discipline | Words |
|---|---|
| Contact name | Ire'ne Lara Silva |
| Contact address | San Antonio, TX |
| Phone 1 | 512-233-9294 |
| Phone 2 | |
| Public Performance | $1, 500 – $3, 500 |
| School performance | $1, 500 – $3, 500 |
| Workshop fees | $1, 500 – $3, 500 |
| Travel per diem lodging | $300 – $750 |
| City | San Antonio |
| Website | |
| Special audiences | Festivals, Hands-on activities, Libraries, People with disabilities, Schools, Seniors |
| School audiences | High |
| Venue size | Larger, Medium, Smaller, Unplugged |
