Petra Salazar

Petra Salazar is a poet, educator, and culture worker from the Española Valley in Northern New Mexico. A former diesel mechanic turned community arts organizer, Salazar holds an MFA in Poetry from UNC Greensboro and an M.Ed from George Washington University. Her writing explores coyote identity, ancestral memory, and sacred geographies of the US Southwest. She moonlights for a creative reuse nonprofit where she works to make art sustainable and accessible. Her debut poetry collection, Harsh Terrain, is forthcoming from FlowerSong Press.