“Jigsaw Leaves.” Fall 2025. Nonfiction. The Portland Review.
“Season of Attempted Healing.” Fall 2025. Nonfiction. South Florida Poetry Journal.
“Apoleia.” Fall 2025. Fourth River. Poetry.
Semifinalist. Ohio State University’s 2025 Non/fiction Collection. Prize.
“Things I Wish I Could Demand of you.” Summer 2025. Healing Muse.
Finalist. Black Lawrence Press’s Immigrant Writing Series for my book Jaja-Haha. 2025.
“How to Make a Latina.” Spring 2025. Columbia Journal.
“I try to Imagine Myself Giving Birth.” Spring 2025. Columbia Journal.
“Church Girl.” Spring 2025. Columbia Journal.
“Seeing.” Spring 2025. The Main Review.
“Fast Food Haikus.” Spring 2025. The Portland Review.
“A Girl at a Bar is a Call.” Summer 2025. Quernica Press. Poetry.
“Stolen Bike and how a Miami Poet Turns Tragedy into Art.” Spring 2025. WLRN. Interview.
“Microaggression Mad-libs.” Spring 2025. University of Baltimore’s Welter. Poetry.
“This Girl’s Body as a Carton of Milk.” Spring 2025. University of Baltimore’s Welter. Poetry.
“Hands on the Wheel.” Spring 2025. Lucky Jefferson. Poetry.
“Petunia.” Spring 2025. Paddock Review. Poetry.
“Review of Karen Salyer McElmurray’s New Memoir: I Could Name God in Twelve Ways (University Press of Kentucky).” South Dakota Review. Spring 2025. Review.
“The Harrowing Effects of Climate Change on Your Favorite Cryptids.” Parley Lit. Spring 2025. Nonfiction.
“Robot.” Spring 2025. Red Ogre Review. Cartoon.
“Above the Brew.” Spring 2025. University of Alabama’s Al Dente. Painting.
“Les Pieds Rouges.” Fall 2024. Third Wednesday. Fiction.
“Above the Brew.” Fall 2024. University of Alabama’s Al Dente. Painting.
“Life Right now.” Fall 2024. About Place. Comic
“The Good Daughter as a Liminal Slip.” Fall 2024. Rhino Poetry. Poetry
“Abuela Tells me to have Three Kids.” Fall 2024. Common Ground Review. Poetry.
“My Block List is.” Spring 2024. storySouth. Poetry.
Semi-Finalist for Autumn House Press’s 2024 Fiction Prize for Manuscript In Rooms with Boys.
“Say Anything.” Spring 2024. Oyster River Pages. Fiction.
“Medusa and Me.” Fall 2023. Salem State University Press. Fiction.
“To be or not: Hamlet Re-told as a Pro-Con List.” Quarter Press. Fall 2023. Fiction.
“Blurry Kindness.” Fall 2023. Arkana Magazine. Illustrated narrative/comics.
“In Rooms with Boys.” Fall 2023. Westchester Review. Fiction.
“She Loves me, She Loves me Not.” Fall 2023. Lavender Review. Poetry.
“The 2020s.” Fall 2023. Memoir Magazine. Artwork.
“Oscar Worthy Films.” Fall 2023. Salamander Magazine. Poetry.
“In Your Orbit.” Fall 2023. Salamander Magazine. Poetry.
Kenyon Review Summer Writers Workshop. Fiction.
“Coming out.” Summer 2023. Sinking City. Short story.
“Cuban Sandwich Book review.” Summer 2023. Florida Book Review. Review.
“Chump.” Summer 2023. StorySouth. Fiction.
“Spanish Moss.” Spring 2023. O, Miami. Beer inspired by my poem.
“Jaja-Haha.” Spring 2023. The Masters Review. Fiction.
“Amo de dos.” Spring 2023. The VerseVerse. Crypto poetry.
“Enamorada.” Spring 2023. Flare Magazine. Painting/Journal Art.
“A Small Life.” Spring 2023. SoFloPoJo. Video poetry.
“Confused.” Fall 2022. Saw Palm. Poetry.
“Teacher Tells us to Stop.” Fall 2022. Saw Palm. Poetry.
“Sleepover.” Fall 2022. Saw Palm. Poetry.
“Blessé.” Fall 2022. Santa Fe Literary Review. Creative nonfiction.
“Rufinol.” Fall 2022. The Rumpus. Poetry.
“Not all Men.” Fall 2022. The Rumpus. Poetry.
“A Moratorium on Sex.” Fall 2022. The Rumpus. Poetry.
“Perdida.” Fall 2022. SmokeLong en Español. Fiction.
“Testify.” Fall 2022. The Parliament Literary Magazine. Fiction.
“La Otra.” Summer 2022. Black Fork Review. Fiction.
“Flawed Vision.” Summer 2022. Voices Anthology. Fiction.
“Turning Thirty.” Summer 2022. Black Fork Review. Lyric Essay.
“Tortillera.” Summer 2022. South Florida Poetry Journal. Poetry.
“Wallflower.” Summer 2022. South Florida Poetry Journal. Poetry.
“Type of Man.” Summer 2022. The Parliament Literary Magazine. Fiction.
“Portrait at Thirty.” Spring 2022. O, Miami. Poetry.
“Lo que Viene.” Spring 2022. Woodcrest Magazine. Visual art.
Pushcart nomination for “We Need our Pain.” 2022.
“Instructor Feedback.” Spring 2022. CRAFT. Fiction.
“Review of Grieving for Guava.” Fall 2021. Florida Book Review. Nonfiction.
“Family Sketch.” Fall 2021. Santa Clara Review. Creative nonfiction.
“A Lady is.” Fall 2021. Santa Clara Review. Poetry.
Pushcart nomination for “Peluda.” 2020.
Poet in Residence for O,Miami’s “On Shore” series. Fall 2021.
“Body at Rest.” Fall 2021. Wilderness Horse Literary Review.
“El Rey de la Frita.” Summer 2021. Multilingual Miami/O Miami.
“Crossing the Hyphen.” Chapbook. Spring 2022. Tolsun Press.
“De Luto.” Summer 2021. Acentos Review
“Miss Pronounced.” Summer 2021. Aji Magazine
Slag Glass City Editorial Board Selection for essay “We Need our Pain.”
“We Need our Pain.” Summer 2021. Slag Glass City.
2021 Academy of American Poets Prize Winner. Judged by Major Jackson.
2021 Florida International University Literary Awards Fiction Runner up.
“Eternity’s Gate.” Painting. Spring 2021. Wilderness Horse Literary Review.
“The Muses of the Lower World,” Spring 2021. Minerva Rising.
“Your Life as Told by a Stranger.” Spring 2021. The Flagler Review.
“Mispronounced Girl.” Spring 2021. Everyday Fiction.
Winner: Arkana Editor’s Choice Award, Creative Nonfiction 2020.
“The First Woman I Loved was Named Pain.” Fall 2020. Arkana.
“Sunset Place.” Fall 2020. Jai-Alai Books.
“Trigueña.” Fall 2020. The Superstition Review.
“Called out of my Name.” Fall 2020. The Courtship of Winds.
“Look Away Girl.” Fall 2020. Painting. The Courtship of Winds.
“The Foreigner.” Fall 2020. The Courtship of Winds.
“Slumming it up.” Fall 2020. The Courtship of Winds.
“Thrive in a Red World” painting. Fall 2020. The Courtship of Winds.
“Lesbian on a Ledge” cover illustration. Spring 2021. Sinister Wisdom.
“The Human Fund.” Spring 2021. Co-Stanza, A Zine about Nothing.
“Gortex.”Spring 2021. Co-Stanza, A Zine about Nothing.
“George Costanza is my Hero.”Spring 2021. Co-Stanza, A Zine about Nothing.
“Believing and Knowing.” Spring 2021. Sinister Wisdom.
“Portrait of a Cuban Girl”. Painting. February 2020. Acentos Review.
“Hope Springs Eternal in Dade-County.” July 2020. O’Miami Coconut Grove Banner.
“Exile Love.” February 2020. Acentos Review.
“Miami Allowed me to Exist.” October 2019. O’Miami.
“The Only Ones Left.” Painting. October 2019. O’Miami.
“I don’t Weep for Cursed Land.” October 2019. O’Miami.
“#RememberMiami.” October 2019. O’Miami.
“The Sedanos in East Hialeah.”October 2019. O’Miami.
“Hialeah, USA.” October 2019. O’Miami.
“Memories of a Gone Home.”October 2019. O’Miami.
“Normandy Isles.”October 2019. O’Miami.
“A&M.”October 2019. O’Miami.
“Don’t let the Sun set over Sunset Place.”October 2019. O’Miami.
“Thirst.” March 2019. Sinister Wisdom.
“Review of Rebecca Makkai’s The Great Believers.” July 2018. Lambda Literary.
“Rachel Dolezal.” June 2018. The Flagler Review.
“New Lives.” May 2018. MOKO Magazine.
“Zip Odes.” April 2018. WLRN.
“Modern Day Ken Kukarni.” April 2018. Saudade County Press.
“I want to be Bob Dylan.” April 2018. Junto Magazine.
“The Cut: Female Genital Mutilation in the Modern World.” October 2017. Politicsay.
“Ode to Jarritos.” April 2017. WLRN.
“Yes, Southwest Miami has some Real Gems, Here are 10 of them.” May 2017. The New Tropic.
“Meet the Red Brigade: The Indian Group Teaching Women to Fight Back.” February 2017. Politicsay.
“President Trump Announces New Cuba policy.” January 2017. Politicsay.
“An in-depth Report at Japan’s Overpopulation Crisis.” December 2016. Politicsay.
“Europe’s Terrorism Problem.” November 2016. Politicsay.
“Review Nec(Romantic) by Cathleen Chambless.” August 2016. Pank Magazine.
“Orlando Attacks are a Reminder that Anti-LGBT Persecution Remains.” June 2016. Miami New Times.
“When You’re Latina, But Don’t Look Latina.” June 2015. Acentos Review.
“Moving Day Grant gets People Dancing.” June 2015. Parkinson Report.
“Personal Experiences Drive a Caregiver to Help Others.” June 2015. Parkinson Report.
“How Society Erases Bisexual Identity.” April 2015. The Beacon.
“Alabama Legalizes Gay Marriage.” March 2015. The Beacon.
“LGBT Professor is a Positive Role Model.” January 2015. The Beacon.
“Homophobia in Hispanic Culture.” September 2014. The Beacon.
“George Takei Talks Equality.” August 2014. The Beacon.
“Invention Not Owned by Apple.” February 2012. The Reporter.
“No Reservations.” May 2012. The Reporter.
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