Interview with SmokeLong Quarterly about my short story “Perdida” for the September 2022 issue. “Los fantasmas y los embrujos siempre me han fascinado. En la televisión, se presenta como espíritus unidimensionales que existen únicamente para molestar a los vivos o para asustar al protagonista.”

Interview with Arkana about my creative nonfiction piece, which won their editor’s choice award. Interview here: Contributor Spotlight: Madari Pendas | Arkana . Excerpt: “Poetry forces one to think about language on an almost atomic level, so to speak. What I love about poets is that they are very attuned to the way their work sounds, and often you will catch them reading aloud their words. I want each sentence to go beyond its utilitarian function and feel like a gift. I want a reader to feel that the author has attempted to compose something beautiful for them, something that sounds lovely in their mind’s voice, something they too want to repeat aloud. Poets are so attentive to language and I think that type of careful curation is something I try to bring to my fiction and nonfiction works. Poetry is such a generous art; it gives you writing that you read for the simple pleasure of how lovely it sounds in your mouth. So when I write something, I want to give them a story, but something that is pleasurable on an additional level.”