Chibbi (all pronouns) has been on a stage since the age of eight and on a mic since 2006. Mexican-born and Laredo-raised, they founded Laredo BorderSlam in 2010, helped found Write About Now in Houston, and have spent two decades building the kind of rooms they wished existed: places where queer, Latinx, and otherwise unruly voices get the mic and keep it. Their work lives where art meets activism, exploring identity, belonging, and the fight for the validity of one's own existence.

 

A two-time APCA Spoken Word Artist of the Year and three-time San Antonio Grand Slam Champion, Chibbi has placed in the top three at national slams including the National Poetry Slam and Southern Fried, and in 2026 won the first-ever hosting slam at the Right 2 Write Poetry Slam Festival. Their performances have been featured by Button Poetry, All Def Poetry, BuzzFeed, and We Are Mitú, earning millions of views, and they have taken the stage at the Open Society Foundations Fellowship Conference and the Aspen Institute's Tech Accountability Coalition. They wrote, performed, produced, and engineered the spoken word album The Target Shoots Back (2025), are the author of OTRO/PATRIA and co-editor of Contra: Texas Poets Speak Out, and their chapbook The Boy & the Circus is forthcoming from Abode Press in 2027. They hold fellowships from Tin House, Lambda Literary, Sundress Academy for the Arts, and DreamYard.

 

Trained at UT Austin and Dublin's Gaiety School of Acting, they have played Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Usnavi in In the Heights, and the Creature in Frankenstein. Off stage they are the founder of Gem.In.Eyes Productions, Editor-in-Chief of Write About Now Publishing, Program Director at Out in Tech, a teaching artist with Gemini Ink, host of the Puro Pinche Podcast and The Speaker Meeting, and the organizer behind Queer Voices San Antonio.