Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal
Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal (she/they) sees, hears, feels, and communicates across mediums and cultures. She's a deep-watching ekphrastic poet, a photographic flash essayist, a broad-stroke sketch artist, a sonic improv performer, a sound-sensitive literary translator, and an assistant professor of English. Their bilingualism stems from her 1.5-generation experience being both Mexican and Xicanx. Their poetry can be found in the Rio Grande Review , Texas Review , The Acentos Review , Defunkt...See more
Stalina Emmanuelle Villarreal (she/they) sees, hears, feels, and communicates across mediums and cultures. She's a deep-watching ekphrastic poet, a photographic flash essayist, a broad-stroke sketch artist, a sonic improv performer, a sound-sensitive literary translator, and an assistant professor of English. Their bilingualism stems from her 1.5-generation experience being both Mexican and Xicanx. Their poetry can be found in the Rio Grande Review , Texas Review , The Acentos Review , Defunkt Magazine , and elsewhere. Their published translations of poetry include Enigmas by Sor Juana In�s de la Cruz, Photograms of My Conceptual Heart, Absolutely Blind by Minerva Reynosa, Kilimanjaro by Maricela Guerrero, and Postcards in Braille by Sergio P�rez Torres. Stalina is the recipient of the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry. Her visual poetry--spanning queer erotica, interactive digital art, and video installation--was part of the Antena@Blaffer exhibit at University of Houston's Blaffer Art Museum. She is currently writing ekphrastic elegies about her interpretative drawings of portraits and a memoir about her photographs of nature--revealing her ability to look backward and within, to write new ways forward. See less
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