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Irma Pineda is a Binnizá (Zapoteca) writer, professor at the National Pedagogical University, unit 203. She writes the column “La Flor de la Palabra'' in “La Jornada Semanal” (La Jornada’s weekly supplement). She is the author of various bilingual poetry books (Zapoteco-Spanish). Her work has been translated to English by Wendy Call, and has been published in journals like Poetry and Chicago Review. Her most recent book is In the Belly of Night and other poems – en el vientre de la noche y otros poemas – Ndaani gueela’ ne xhupa diidxaguie’ (translated by Wendy Call, Pluralia Ediciones, 2022). In addition to English and Spanish, Pineda’s poems have been translated to Estonian, Russian, Italian, Portuguese, German and Chinese and published in magazines and anthologies in America, Europe and Asia. She has done residencies at the Helen Riaboff Whiteley Center at Washington University, the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, and the Casa de Arte y Cultura Calles y Sueños in Chicago. She was a member of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations for 2020–22.