Noemi Ixchel Martinez is a poet-curandera, healing with words, mixed media artist, writer, historian and cultural worker with Mexican and Caribbean roots. I was born in Chicago, the “little village” and now the Rio Grande Valley has been home for most of my life.

I have an undergraduate degree from UT-El Paso in multidisciplinary studies and completed Mexican American Culture, museum studies and archives work at the University of Texas-Pan American, now the University of Texas-RGV. 

I received a MAIS from Western New Mexico University with concentrations in history and writing. My concentrations focused on Indigenous people of the Southwest and Texas and small publishing and the printing press.