Laura Villareal is a poet and book critic. Her debut poetry collection, Girl’s Guide to Leaving (University of Wisconsin Press 2022), was awarded Texas Institute of Letters’ John A. Robert Johnson Award for a First Book of Poetry and the Writers’ League of Texas Book Award for Poetry. She is an associate with Letras Latinas, the literary initiative at the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for Latino Studies.

Contributions: Two poems [Summer 2025]