About
Petra Salazar is an educator and artist from Northern New Mexico: holy ground for Indohispano activism, philosophy, and art. As a creative, Petra prioritizes embodied, hyper-local, land-based community practices over isolated, shallow, elitist declarations.
Petra's debut book Harsh Terrain is forthcoming FlowerSong Press, 2025. They were a finalist and honorable mention in the 2022 Button Chapbook Contest, and their work has been featured in Colorado Review, Indiana Review, Sonora Review, The Southampton Review, Latin American Literature Today, and elsewhere.
Petra holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Poetry from UNC-Greensboro, where they graduated as a Fred Chappell Fellow. They also hold a Master of Education degree & a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management from George Washington University. Petra has had additional formative educational experiences as an Army National Guard diesel mechanic, military conscientious objector to the Iraq War, labor activist, community organizer, higher ed administrator, certified master gardener, herbalism apprentice, and mindfulness and Tai chi practitioner.
