Irma Pineda

Irma Pineda (Binnizá, Juchitán, Oaxaca) is a poet, translator, educator, and Indigenous rights activist. She is the author of twelve books of bilingual (Spanish- Isthmus Zapotec) poetry. A faculty member at the National Teachers' University, she was Vice-President of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues from 2020 through 2022. English-language collections of her poetry, translated by Wendy Call, are co-published by Pluralia / Eulalia and forthcoming from Deep Vellum. She...See more

Irma Pineda (Binnizá, Juchitán, Oaxaca) is a poet, translator, educator, and Indigenous rights activist. She is the author of twelve books of bilingual (Spanish- Isthmus Zapotec) poetry. A faculty member at the National Teachers' University, she was Vice-President of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues from 2020 through 2022. English-language collections of her poetry, translated by Wendy Call, are co-published by Pluralia / Eulalia and forthcoming from Deep Vellum. She lives in her hometown of Juchitán, Oaxaca. See less