Irene Villaseñor is a poet and community-centered artist whose work explores lineage, migration, colonial archives, family stories, and the ways diasporic and Indigenous communities survive and create meaning. Her writing appears in Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, Queer Nature: An Ecoqueer Poetry Anthology, Nat. Brut, Cream City Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Yellow Medicine Review, and elsewhere.