She has published numerous works of poetry and her short story collection won the 2013 Premio Aztlán Literary Prize.

Silva's collection, blood sugar canto, was published by Saddle Road Press in January 2016.

Silva served as co-editor with Dan Vera for IMANIMAN: Poets Reflect on Transformative & Transgressive Borders Through Gloria Anzaldúa's Work, published by Aunt Lute Books (2016).

[5] Her first full-length collection of poetry furia received an honorable mention for the 2011 International Latino Book Award.

Her short story collection flesh to bone won the 2013 Premio Aztlán Literary Prize,[1][2] was a fiction finalist for A Room of Her Own Foundation's 2013 Gift of Freedom Award,[6] and was a finalist for Foreword Review's Book of the Year Award in Multicultural Fiction.