Bonnie Ilza Cisneros is a fourth-generation educator in a line of Tejana schoolteachers. She taught middle school English in San Antonio Independent School District for five years and received on-the-job-training in arts and culture programming con mucho corazón at San Anto Cultural Arts as the El Placazo Barrio Newspaper coordinator. She wrote a creative nonfiction thesis at Texas State University MFA program, was altered forever at Macondo Writers Workshop in 2016, and was awarded the first artist grant she ever submitted from NALAC in 2018. Her poems and essays appear in El Retorno, Chicana/Latina Studies, River Teeth, El Placazo, Porter House Review, Infrarrealista Review, La Voz de Esperanza, Buckman Journal, and Contemporary Creative Nonfiction.  Moonlighting as DJ Despeinada, she has been spinning all-vinyl soundscapes of the borderlands for over a decade. Throughout the pandemic, she has led workshops and published zines at San Antonio Public and Chicago Public libraries, presented lectures for community colleges and universities online, recorded radio shows for WFMU and Marfa Public Radio, and curated a vast variety of cultural experiences within her community as part of a creative mutual aid ecosystem of local artists who cross pollinate their talents, resources, and energies for collective healing. Her most recent endeavor, Bisnieta Press, is place to preserve and present South Texas stories, folklore, and culture. With funds from a 2022 City of San Antonio Individual Artist Grant, she curated Siempre Verde: Creative Ecosystem for Feeling & Healing at Galeria E.V.A. and published an archival zine catalogue containing 40 works of art by 24 San Antonio artists (+1 from Chicago) she commissioned during 2020-2022 in an effort to redistribute funds among working class artists. All the while, Bonnie and her partner raise two m’ijas and keep a coop of six gallinas in San Antonio, Texas. Her digital archive, an altar of Anzalduán autohistoria, is www.bonniecisneros.com.