A multilingual poet, storyteller, and weaver, Violeta Garza is the textbook middle child in a family of Mexican immigrants. Her work has been published in Anti-Heroin Chic, Foglifter, and Acentos Review, among others. They have performed their original poems and stories for Texas Public Radio, The Alamo Chapter for Human Rights, The Center for Refugee Services, and elsewhere. A member of the Macondo Writers Workshop, she lives a sweet, queer life in Yanawana (San Antonio, Texas), with her partner and an adequate number of potted plants.