Houston

“I milk my tongue into a glass of homemade morir soñandor.” | Jasminne Mendez

Anna María

actor | community organizer | editor writer

Barrio Writers

free college level writing workshops | for teenagers in underserved communities

Diamond Braxton

editor writer

Zachary Caballero

poet

Tonantzin
Canestaro-Garcia

performance poet

Natasha Carrizosa

poet | writer | speaker

Marissa Castillo

actor | playwright | producer

Laura Cesarco Eglin

poet | translator
| Veliz Books founding editor & publisher

José Chapa Valle

poet

Leslie Contreras Schwartz

essayist | poet

Patricia Coral

editor educator writer

Sarah Cortez

  editor | poet | speaker teacher

Miriam Damaris Maldonado

community organizer 
founder/member of Colectivo Feminista Colibrí 
| poet

Tony Diaz

activist writer | professor
founder of Nuestra Palabra:
Latino Writers Having Their Say 

Farrah Fang

artist | poet

Icess Fernandez Rojas

educator | podcaster | writer

Christopher Miguel Flakus

poetwriter 
founding editor of Defunkt magazine

Lionel G. Garcia

writer

Elisa A. Garza

editor | educator | poet

Elena Gonzales Melinger

poet writer

Yeiry Guevara

artistwriter | zine-maker

Javier O. Huerta

author | poet

Josh Inocencio

performer | writer

Chance L Landry

Apache | artist authorillustrator

Librotraficante Movement

activism | culture | literature community 
founded 2012 by Bryan Parras, Laura Razo
Liana Lopez, Lupe Mendez, Tony Diaz

Amanda Lopez

poet writer

Angelina M. Lopez

author

Deniz ‘dee!colonize’ Lopez

artivist | journalist | poet

J. Estanislao Lopez

poet

Katrina Machetta

journalist | poet

Liz Márquez

educator | poet | writer

Jasminne Mendez

author | memoirist | playwright | poet

Lupe Mendez

 activist bilingual poet educator writer |
2022 Texas Poet Laureate

J. A. Molinete

documentalista | narrador | periodista poeta

Tomás Q. Morín

poet translator 

Manuel Nava Leal

author | poet

Nuestra Palabra:
Latino Writers Having Their Say 

 community culture literature 
non-profit 
founded 1998 by Tony Diaz

Ricardo Nuila

writer

Juan Palomo

journalist | poet

Daniel Peña

columnistjournaliststoryteller | writer

Eloísa Pérez-Lozano

poet writer photographer

Julie Pujol-Karel

editor | poet | writer

Paige Quiñones

poet

Miranda Ramírez

designer | visual artist | writer
founding editor of Defunkt Magazine

Reyes Ramirez

curator | educator 
| organizer | writer

Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage

 locate | preserve disseminate 
| written Hispanic culture of the United States

Hugo Esteban Rodríguez

educator writer 

R. Joseph Rodríguez

educator storyteller writer

Sarah Rodriguez

writer

Tonāntzin Rodríguez

activist | poet

Erika Said Izaguirre

essayist narrator | poet

Adriana Salazar

poet

Criseida Santos-Guevara

author

Analicia Sotelo

poet writer

Roberto Tejada

art writer | historian | poet

Tejano Center

community | empowerment | support opportunity

Tim Tingle

Oklahoma Choctaw
| author storyteller

Tintero Projects / Proyectos Tinteros 

literary platform emerging latinx writers & writers of color 
| founded 2016 by Lupe Mendez

Johnny Torres

activist poet

Evangelina Vigil-Piñón

author | journalist | poet
| TV host | translator

Juan Fernando Villagómez

writer

Stalina Villarreal

essayist | poet | translator 

Lisa Wartenberg Vélez

writer

Keagan Wheat

editor | poet

Gwendolyn Zepeda

author | poet