Savina Romero was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico to a family with deep generational ties to the region. Growing up, the Spanish used in her home was confined to domestic tasks, religion, and occasional jokes– leaving her with years of shame over the erasure and assimilation that severed many of her family’s linguistic and cultural roots. Through her journey of reconnection, studying Spanish, and uncovering lacunas of individual and collective memory, she has come to reclaim the term "no sabo" as an emblem of vulnerability, learning, and truth.

She initially studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago but realized (after a 20-day vow of silence) that the perception of art relied on narrative and story, almost more than the object itself. Writing and reading soon became essential to her creative practice. Health challenges eventually brought her back home to Albuquerque, where she continued her studies at UNM, majoring in Art Studio, English and Spanish, using art and creative writing as tools of exploration and healing.

For Savina, expression is a form of medicine: reading life as literature, and writing it, can balm wounds as well as any herbal poultice. In her writing and reading, she explores the wounds of cultural and linguistic erasure, intergenerational trauma, social identity categorization, land memory, and individual and collective memories/imaginations. Having worked as a teacher, tutor, artist, caregiver, nanny, and freelance editor, care remains inseparable from her work. Savina is now pursuing a MA in Hispanic Southwest Studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, continuing her work of rediscovery, connection, and liberatory, healing expression as a artist, writer, student and educator.