Stalina Villarreal
Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal (she/they) sees, hears, feels, and communicates across mediums and cultures. Her/Their bilingualism stems from her/their 1.5-generation experience being both Mexican and Xicanx. Her/Their debut collection of poetry and nonfiction—Watcha—is forthcoming from Deep Vellum Publishing. Her/Their poetry can be found in the Rio Grande Review, Texas Review, The Acentos Review, Defunkt Magazine, and elsewhere. Her/Their published translations of poetry include Enigmas by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Photograms of My Conceptual Heart Absolutely Blind by Minerva Reynosa, Kilimanjaro by Maricela Guerrero, and Postcards in Braille by Sergio Pérez Torres. Stalina is the recipient of the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry. She/They is/are currently writing ekphrastic elegies about her/their interpretative drawings of portraits and a memoir about her/their photographs of nature—revealing her/their ability to look backward and within, to write new ways forward.