Silva is the author of three chapbooks of poetry, two full-length books of poetry, and one short story collection. Her work has appeared in various journals, including Acentos Review, Pilgrimage, and Yellow Medicine Review and various anthologies including Improbable Worlds: An Anthology of Texas and Louisiana Poets and The Weight of Addition: An Anthology of Texas Poetry.
Silva's collection, blood sugar canto, was published by Saddle Road Press in January 2016. Silva served as co-editor with Dan Vera for IMANIMAN: Poets Reflect on Transformative & Transgressive Borders Through Gloria Anzaldúa's Work, published by Aunt Lute Books (2016).[5]
Awards and prizes
Her first full-length collection of poetry furia received an honorable mention for the 2011 International Latino Book Award. Her short story collection flesh to bone won the 2013 Premio Aztlán Literary Prize,[1][2] was a fiction finalist for A Room of Her Own Foundation's 2013 Gift of Freedom Award,[6] and was a finalist for Foreword Review's Book of the Year Award in Multicultural Fiction.[7]
From 2004 to 2008, Silva was the Executive Coordinator of the prestigious Macondo Writers Workshop, the workshop founded by Sandra Cisneros.[9] She was a co-director of the Flor De Nopal Literary Festival.
Works
Poetry
ani'mal, La Loba Press, (2001), reprinted Axoquentlatoa Press, (2010)[10]
INDíGENA, La Loba Press, (2001), reprinted Axoquentlatoa Press, (2010)[10]
