dion banville

dion banville is a queer border poet, comic book fiend, and amateur historian based in El Paso, Texas. He attended the New York State Summer Writers Institute in 2023, and his work is forthcoming in the Rio Grande Review, where he won an Emerging Voices prize in poetry in 2023 and 2024. dion recently graduated from The University of Texas at El Paso with a BA in Creative Writing focusing on the Latin American diaspora. He is currently working on a collection of poetry revolving around the Farah Factory plants in El Paso, Texas, that left the city broken, as well as a graphic novel about Mexican braceros and American myth.