Lourdes Figueroa is a queer chicanx oral poet & poetry filmmaker based in the Bay Area. Their chapbooks, poetry films and long verse poems explore memory, migration, and our collective hxstories. They have served as a family case manager, domestic violence advocate, housing advocate, interpreter, translator, and community organizer. They are a recipient of Nomadic Press Bay Area Literature Award for Poetry, a two-time SFAC Artist Grantee, and a 2025 ReGen Artist Grantee with Galeria De La Raza. Lourdes’s offerings are the chapbooks yolotl, Ruidos = To Learn Speak, Vuelta, the poetry film Las Marimacha Fragments, (Beyond Baroque International Poetry Film Festival Award 2024, Best Narrative); and the long-verse poem I will kiss your mouth b/w the overgrown Milpa (UANL, México). Recent poems appear in Huizache 12.

A native of limbo nation, lourdes continues to believe in your lung & throat.