M.R. "CHIBBI" ORDUNA CARRETERO
Poet | Performer | Publisher | Producer | Community Organizer
EDUCATION
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Teaching Artist Project - July 2021
Summer Institute – Virtual
University of Texas, Austin, TX - May 2009
Bachelor of Arts, Theatre and Dance
Gaiety School of Acting, Dublin, Ireland - Fall 2008
Study Abroad Program
HONORS & AWARDS
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July 2023 Lambda Literary Writers Retreat for Emerging Voices
November 2022 Arts and Letters Award, Friends of the San Antonio Public Library
July 2022 Tin House Summer Workshop Retreat
June 2022 Finalist, Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize
June 2022 2nd Place, Southern Fried Poetry Slam
December 2022 Finalist, Wax Nine Chapbook Competition
June 2021 Fellow, DreamYard Rad(ical) Poetry Consortium
February 2020 2nd Place, King Poetry Slam
February 2020 San Antonio Grand Slam Champion, PuroSlam
December 2017 Writer in Residence, Write Art Out
August 2017 3rd Place, National Poetry Slam Group Piece Competition
April 2017 San Antonio Grand Slam Champion, PuroSlam
June 2015 2nd Place Team Competition, Southwest Shootout
April 2008 Best Actor in a Play for Youth Nominee, ACoT B.Iden Payne Awards
EDITORIAL, ARTS EDUCATION, & NON-PROFIT EXPERIENCE
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2022 - Present Community Manager, Out in Tech
2022 - Present Editor in Chief, Write About Now Publishing
2021 - Present Director of Virtual Programming, Write About Now Media
2020 - Present Director of Media Production, Write Art Out
2020 - Present Director & Host, Words and Shit Talk Show/Podcast
2021 - 2022 Program Developer & Production Manager, The Echo Project
2021 - 2022 Co-Editor, The Mixtape Literary Magazine
2020-2022 Teaching Artist, Gemini Ink
2021 Workshop Facilitator, Queer Storytelling, San Antonio Public Library
2021 Workshop Facilitator, Stonewall International Poetry Slam
2021 Teaching Artist, San Antonio Airforce Bases
2021 Workshop Facilitator, Awful Good Writers
2021 Workshop Facilitator, Defunkt Magazine
2020 Co-Editor, Contra: Texas Poets Speak Out, Flowersong Press
2019 Workshop Facilitator, Write About Now Writer’s Retreat
2019 Workshop Facilitator, ABQ Unidos
2017-2019 Regional Trainer, South Central, MAC Cosmetics
2016-2017 Resident Trainer, San Antonio, TX, MAC Cosmetics
2013-2016 Guest Facilitator at Quarterly Update Trainings, MAC Cosmetics
2010-2013 Founder, Laredo BorderSlam
PUBLICATIONS
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November 2020 Contra: Texas Poets Speak Out
Co-Editor, FlowerSong Press 2020
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June 2019 OTRO/PATRIA
Self-Published, 2019
June 2013 Where the Wild Things Grow
Self-Published, 2013
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JOURNALS & ANTHOLOGIES
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Forthcoming “heaven is a beach”
Pilgrimage Press
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Forthcoming “European Ivy”
Allium Journal
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Forthcoming “Tar-Stained Youth”
Cosmonaut Avenue
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August 2023 “Apparently Straight Boys…” and “The Curse of the Blue-Footed Booby”
Underblong
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November 2022 “An Ode to Texas, if Odes were Written the way Mexican Moms Give Compliments”
RiverSedge Journal
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October 2022 “Permission Pantoum”
The Texas Review
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July 2022. “We Have Always Been Here”
The Bitchin’ Kitchen, Volume 13, Issue 3
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May 2022 “Diaspora – A Spiral”
Yalobusha Review
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March 2022 “You Deserve an Apology” and “The Hereafter” and “All Mine”
Acid Verse Volume 2, Los Angeles Poet Society
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February 2022 “All Mine”
Waxwing Magazine
February 2022 “I Visited the Temples of Tenochticlan when I was 8
and all I Got was this Lousy Imposter Syndrome”
Honey Literary Magazine
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January 2022 “Feels Great. Big Loads. Heart. Eggplant. Heart.”
Homology Lit
June 2021 “Semi-Automatic Christ”
The Acentos Review
May 2021 “Can I Borrow 40 Bucks?”
Voices de la Luna, Volume 13, Number 3
May 2021 “I’m Almost There” and “Immigration Courts Need a Curandera”
Wax Nine
April 2021 “What it’s like to be a Mexican American”
The Journal of Latina Critical Feminism, Volume 4
December 2020 “Finding Light” and “Las Dos Fridas”
November 2020 Contra: Texas Poets Speak Out Review
Latino Book Review
November 2020 “Butti-Ho” and “The United Corporations of America”
Contra: Texas Poets Speak Out, Flowersong Press
Spring 2020 “The Target Shoots Back”
The Latino Book Review Magazine 2020
September 2017 “How I Learned to Fly”
Texas’s Best Emerging Poets, Z Publishing
September 2016 Words from the Corazon – Interview
OutSmart Magazine
MEDIA
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Interviews
June 2023 Writing the Queer in Hostile Times
Gemini Ink
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November 2021 Poets and Platforms
Keep the Mic On – Virtual
July 2021 Penguin House, Google Me
Poet Up Podcast
December 2020 Activism and Poetry
Defunkt Magazine Interview – Virtual
July 2019 The Richard Wilmore Show
Featured Guest – Digital Talk Show
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2020 - 2021 Words and Shit podcast - on Apple Podcast , on Spotify
Host
Television Appearances
January 2022 2022 MLK Virtual March – “Autumn, Always”
City of San Antonio TV
July 2021 “Comunidad Primero”
Community First Healthcare Commercial
April 2021 “Immigration Courts Could Use a Curandera”
San Antonio Living
Featured on YouTube Channels
Write About Now
May 2022 "Semi-Automatic Christ"
May 2022 "Nameless"
January 2022 “We Have Always Been Here & Diaspora”
December 2021 “Ode to Texas; if Odes were Written the way Mexican Moms Give Compliments”
December 2021 “The Target Shoots Back”
November 2021 “Ode to Texas; if Odes were Written the way Mexican Moms Give Compliments”
November 2021 “Oral Fixation; or Mom, Don’t Read This Poem”
July 2021 “Supernova”
July 2021 “United Corporations of America”
April 2021 “Nameless”
March 2021 “Pulse: For Bright Night Blackouts”
February 2021 “Las Dos Fridas”
February 2021 “Whose Right?”
January 2021 “Oral Fixation; or Mom, Don’t Read This Poem”
January 2021 “Lost and Found: An Oral History”
October 2020 “Rich Gay”
July 2020 “Finding Light”
June 2020 “Disney: The Mouse Took Too Many Tequila Shots
April 2020 “A Senseless Census”
January 2020 “Lost and Found: An Oral History”
July 2018 “Barrio Yard Sale”
April 2018 Write About Now, featuring Chibbi
February 2018 “Oral Fixation, or Mom Don’t Read This Poem”
January 2018 “Mexican Americans”
October 2016 “Whose Right?”
August 2016 “Whose Right?”
March 2016 “Late Nights and Broken Bottles”
October 2014 “Rich Gay”
Button Poetry
April 2022 "Whose Right?"
September 2021 “Rich Gay”
March 2021 “Lost and Found: An Oral History”
March 2021 “A Senseless Census”
November 2020 “Las Dos Fridas”
June 2020 “Disney: The Mouse Took Too Many Tequila Shots
Public Poetry Houston
December 2020 “There’s No Way I’m Not Here”
Gemini Ink Youth Writing Workshops
July 2020 “Invocations & Shout Outs”
July 2020 “Writing an Ode”
July 2020 “What it’s like to Be Me”
July 2020 “This is Just to Say”
All Def Poetry
March 2020 “Cesar Chavez”
Poetry Slam Inc
December 2017 “Woke AF”
December 2017 “Barrio Yard Sale”
December 2017 “Mexican-Americans”
SlamFind
August 2017 “Oral Fixation, or Mom, Don’t Read This Poem”
NOTABLE PERFORMANCES
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Selected from 50+ features, 2013-present
February 2023 Open Society Foundations – US Fellowship Conference
Main Stage Speaker – San Antonio, TX
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June 2022 BCFH/HHS Pride Resource Fair
Keynote Speaker, Workshop Facilitator – San Antonio, TX
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February 2022 Mark Conference Rutger's University
Main Stage Speaker - New Brunswick, NJ
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November 2021 Latinitas 2021 Fall Open House
Featured Performer – Austin, TX
October 2021 Stonewall International Poetry Slam Festival
Featured Performer, Workshop Facilitator, Host – Baltimore, MD
September 2021 Baltimore State University
Workshop Facilitator and Featured Performer – Virtual
August 2021 SUNI Oswego
Featured Performer – Oswego, NY
August 2021 Texas Women’s University – Student Union Takeover
Featured Performer – Denton, TX
June 2020 The National Council for Behavioral Science
Commissioned Work and Featured Performer – Virtual
February 2020 Button Poetry Presents Storytellers
Featured Performer – Miami, FL
December 2019 Aloha Poetry Festival
Featured Performer – Honolulu, HI
September 2019 Writers for Migrant Justice
Featured Performer – San Antonio, TX
July 2019 The Pride Center – Queer Voices
Featured Performer – San Antonio, TX
October 2018 Kingsborough College – Latinx Symposium
Featured Performer – New York City, NY
HOSTING EXPERIENCE
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January 2022 Slam Mania III
Write About Now
October 2021 Stonewall International Poetry Slam Festival
Prelim and Virtual Slam Host
2021-2022 WorldWide Poetry Slam League
Virtual Slam Host
2020-2021 Words and Shit
Virtual Talk Show and Podcast
June 2018 Southern Fried Poetry Festival
Prelims and Side Events Host
2017-2021 The Blah Poetry Spot
Regular Host
June 2017 Southwest Shootout
Prelims and Finals Stage Host
October 2019 Buddy Wakefield Book Release Show
Write About Now
October 2016 Texas Grand Slam
Finals Stage Host
2013-2016, 2022 Write About Now
Resident Host
2010-2013 Laredo BorderSlam
Resident Host
THEATRICAL CREDITS
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Winter 2022. Hedwig and the Angry Inch, John Cameron Mitchell & Stephen Trask
Laredo Theatre Guild International
Hedwig
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Summer 2022 Into the Woods by James Lapine & Steven Sondheim
Laredo Theatre Guild International
Wolf, Cinderella’s Prince
Spring 2022 This Bitch: Esta Sangre Quiero by Adrienne Dawes
Sin Muros Festival, Stages Theatre
Armando
Spring 2021 Borderline by Andrew Siañez-De la O
Sin Muros Festival, Stages Theatre
Tio Ofelio
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Summer 2018 In The Heights by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Laredo Theatre Guild International
Usnavi
Fall 2014 The Rocky Horror Show by Richard O’Brien
Bayou City Theatrics
Columbia
Spring 2013 Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
Laredo Theatre Guild International
Mercutio
Production Credit – Aesthetics and Makeup Director
Winter 2012 Bodas de Sangre by Federico Garcia Lorca
Laredo Theatre Guild International
Leñador 1
Production Credit – Makeup Director
Summer 2012 beat. a play on words by Kelly Groves
Laredo Institute for Theatrical Education
Actor 5
Production Credit – Director
Spring 2012 The Complete Works of William Shakespear, Abridged by Adam Long, Daniel Singer, Jess Winfield
Laredo Little Theatre
Jess/Self
Spring 2012 Macbeth by William Shakespeare
Laredo Theatre Guild International
Doctor of Physic
Production Credit – Special FX Makeup Director
Fall 2011 By the Bog of Cats by Marina Carr
Imago Theatre
Ghost Fancier
Production Credit – Makeup Director
Summer 2011 Rent by Jonathon Larson
Laredo Institute for Theatrical Education
Tom Collins
Production Credit – Makeup Director
Spring 2011 The Drowsy Chaperone by Don Martin and Bob McKellar
Laredo College Opera Workshop
Man in Chair
Fall 2012 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street by Steven Sondheim
Laredo College Opera Workshop
Birder Seller, Mr. Fogg, Chorus
Production Credit – Assistant Director, Makeup Director
