Core Faculty
Petra Salazar (they/them)
MFA in Poetry, MEd in Secondary Education
Petra Salazar, raised in Española, New Mexico, teaches children at a Montessori school & adults at philopoetics.com. Chicano curanderismo & the radical pedagogy of bell hooks inform Petra's approach to teaching & poetry as healing & liberatory practices that occur both inside & outside traditional learning & literary spaces. Their work has been published, or is forthcoming, in Colorado Review, Indiana Review, Sonora Review, The Southampton Review, Latin American Literature Today, and elsewhere. More on Petra here.
Contributing Educators
Francisco Gallegos (he/him)
PhD in Philosophy
Born in Albuquerque, NM, Francisco specializes in phenomenology, philosophy of emotions, and Latin American philosophy. After completing his PhD at Georgetown University, he worked for a year as a philosophical consultant in Silicon Valley. He is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University.
