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Irma Pineda
Photo: Wendy Call
Irma Pineda is a Binnizá 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 published by Pluralia and forthcoming from Deep Vellum. She lives in her hometown of Juchitán, Oaxaca.
