Infrarrealista Review was founded by Cloud Cardona & Juania Sueños, two Chicanxs who met during their time in the Texas State MFA in 2019. Jaded by the institutional “Fine Arts” environment, & seeing their friends drift away from writing after graduation, they sought to create a literary space that motivated their communities to continue to create and share their work. Highlighting & elevating underrepresented Texan voices became their mission. Inspired by the avant-garde Infrarrealista movement led by Roberto Bolaño in 1970s Mexico City, Infrarrealista Review elevates Tejanx artists who don’t have access to institutional literary spaces. IR connects poets & writers throughout the sprawling State of Texas & creates a sustainable cultural economy by paying writers.
IR is for all those former emo kids who loved songs with titles so long that they scrolled across the screen like ticker tape. For the queer kids who were protected by Naruto-loving girls in middle school. For those who dropped out of their MFAs. For those whose parents dropped out of elementary school so they could help their family pay the bills. For those who couldn’t apply for scholarships because of their “legal” status. It’s for those who wrote poems on their Tumblr. It is for our ancestors who fought for us to be here.
Co-Founder
Executive Director
Development Manager
Juania Sueños is a queer MeXicana poet, novelist, and translator. Her hybrid poetry collection topography of a border / line bird (Mouthfeel Press, 2025) won the 2026 NACCS Tejas Foco Poetry Award. She’s the author of UnAmerican Dreams (TAVP 2022), a librito of essays and testimonios from immigrants impacted by State violence. She is the literary section editor at the Caldwell Hays Examiner. Her work has appeared in Acentos Review, New York Quarterly, Sybil Journal, The Skink Beat Review, Porter House Review, Nat. Brut, and Westchester Review. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University and other ineffectual institutional credentials. She credits el cariño de sus ancestros Carolina y Arsenio, still ablaze in her heart, for her well-being and accomplishments.
Co-Founder
Art Director
Marketing Director
Cloud Delfina Cardona (she/they) is an artist, writer, and book cover designer from San Antonio, Texas. She is the author of What Remains, winner of the 2020 Host Publications Chapbook Prize, and the past is a jean jacket, winner of the Hub City Press BIPOC Poetry Series. She is the co-founder of Infrarrealista Review, a literary nonprofit that publishes Texan voices. She has received editorial fellowships from Macmillan in collaboration with Latinx in Publishing and Texas State University’s Center for the Study of the Southwest. They have been a workshop participant at Tin House and Macondo’s Writing Workshop. Their poetry can be found in Prairie Schooner, The Boiler, The Los Angeles Review, and more. She is the 2024-2025 Letras Latinas Poetry Coalition Fellow and currently works as the Marketing Coordinator at Gemini Ink. She moonlights as DJ Mexistentialism.
Nonfiction Editor
Marketing Coordinator
DJ-in-Residence
Dee Lalo Garcia is a Texas-based, queer Chicano writer, editor, and instructor whose roots run deep in South Texas—specifically “el 956.” He navigates between reflecting and chronicling at the intersection of joterías y mamadas, chismeando his way through chronically online and AFK discourse. He insists that his students call him “Profe” at Austin Community College’s Creative Writing Department, and outside campus walls, he serves as the nonfiction editor for Infrrarealista Review, where he and a band of literary misfits are committed to amplifying voices across Texas. His debut essay collection, Bien Chingon: Vatos and Other Essays, is set to drop in Spring 2026 through Plancha Press. You can find him weaponizing his MFA via shitposting on most social media channels @ytuquevato, and tune in to his Substack YTUQUE.FM.
Reviews Editor
Amber Isaac is a queer transwoman from the Midwest. She is the Reviews Editor at Infrarrealista Review. Her works include Peppermint (forthcoming from Fortune Teller Fish) and Remember the Internet: r/WatchPeopleDie (forthcoming from Instar Books).
In-House Tarot Reader
SG HUERTA is a queer Xicanx writer and organizer. They are a Roots Wounds Words Fellow, Tin House alum, and Poetry Editor for Abode Press. Last fall, they had the privilege of facilitating the Autoretrato/Self Portrait Hays Youth Poet Laureate workshop. SG is the author of the nonfiction chapbook GOOD GRIEF. Their debut poetry collection Burns is forthcoming with Sundress Publications in 2026, and their debut novel about a grieving trans Chicano in the Valley is forthcoming with Infrarrealista Review. Find them in Tejas with their partner and cats, working towards liberation for oppressed peoples everywhere. They encourage you to find tangible ways to support Palestinian liberation.
