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Irene Vázquez

About

Born in New Orleans, raised in Houston, & now living in Manhattan, Irene Vázquez is a queer Black Mexican American poet, translator, and journalist. Their debut chapbook, Take Me To the Water, was released by Bloof Books in 2022. By day, Irene works at Levine Querido, editing books about feisty twelve-year-olds.

Articles

Issue 117, Summer 2022

The New Bend

Survival is something worth leaving everything you know behind for, worth sacrificing the soil on which you were sown.

By Irene Vázquez
Web Feature

Once More with Feeling

Cooking became the mechanism by which I differentiated one day from the next, the method by which I cultivated my desire.

By Irene Vázquez