Visiting Writer: Katherine Anne Porter Literary Series
ire’ne lara silva
EVENT DETAILS
Reading + Q&A
Sept. 17, 2025 @7 P.M.
Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center
KAP House, 508 W Center St, Kyle, TX 78640
BIO
ire’ne lara silva, 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; a comic book, VENDAVAL; and a short story collection, flesh to bone, which won the Premio Aztlán. ire’ne is the recipient of a 2025 Storyknife Writers Residency, the 2021 Texas Institute of Letters Shrake Award for Best Short Nonfiction, 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. Her second short story collection, the light of your body, will be published by Arte Publico Press in Spring 2026.
Event is free and open to the public.
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https://kapliterarycenter.txst.edu/events.html
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