Briana Muñoz
Briana Muñoz is a writer from Southern California. Born and raised in San Diego, Briana attended her mother's Mexican folklore dance classes and on ranches, where her father trained horses. She is the author of Loose Lips (Prickly Pear Publishing 2019) and Everything is Returned to the Soil/Todo vuelve a la tierra (FlowerSong Press, 2021). Her work has been published in Dryland, the Bravura Literary Journal, LA BLOGA, and in the Oakland Arts Review, among others.
Everything is Returned to the Soil is a bilingual, full-length poetry collection of poems on the spiritual, political, and cultural realms. Reading Briana Muñoz’s poetry is like following her as she reclaims her Indigenous culture, recounts moments growing up wedged in between two borders, all while breaking long-existing patriarchal structures within her existence as a woman of color.