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Valeria Meiller is an assistant professor in social and environmental challenges in Latin America at the University of Texas, San Antonio. She is currently working on her first scholarly manuscript, Necroterritories: Slaughterhouses and the Politics of Death, and is the director of Ruge el Bosque, a project on environmental poetry of Abya Yala / Afro / Latin America. She is the author of the Spanish poetry books El libro de los caballitos, El Recreo, and El mes raro (forthcoming in English as The Odd Month in 2024, translated by Whitney DeVos).