Vanessa Angélica Villarreal is a bilingual American poet, essayist, and cultural critic of Mexican descent, whose work focuses on first-generation immigrant experience, pop culture, hybrid experimental and visual poetry. Her work has appeared in major media outlets and magazines including The Cut, Oxford American, The Academy of American Poets, POETRY magazine, Harper's Bazaar, BuzzFeed, The Boston Review, and The New York Times, among others.