creative nonfiction & essays.
The Places We Haunt
“Beyond” Substack – August, 2026
How Shows Like ‘The Bear’ Humanize Survivors of Suicide Loss
HuffPost – September, 2023
My Tiny Love Story “Always Swinging Open” (Print)
The New York Times Modern Love Series – August, 2023
A Room of My Own: On Motherhood, Grief, and Metamorphosis
“Beyond” Substack – July, 2023
I Never Understood Día de los Muertos Until It Helped Me Grieve My Brother
Westwind – UCLA’s Journal of the Arts – January, 2023
Lobster Bisque for the Blues
Al Jazeera – December, 2022
How Living Abroad Helped Me Reclaim My Latinx Identity
Vogue – October, 2021
My Secret Life as an Underage Massage Therapist
Narratively – October, 2019
When Your Mother Country Becomes a Foreign Land
Catapult – October, 2018
You Will Have A Son
Eastern Iowa Review – Summer, 2017 (Print) (Pushcart Nominated and Anthologized)
Predation
The Rumpus – February, 2016
Fireworks in June
Guernica Daily – December, 2014
Siren
Medium-Human Parts – December, 2014
Entering The Viewing Room
The Weeklings – September, 2014
stories I wrote.
Beneath the Weight of Birds
Far Off Places – Summer, 2018
The Language of Fruit
Tiferet Journal – Fall/Winter, 2017 (Print) (Pushcart Nominated)
A Reckoning in The Woods
Fiction Southeast – September, 2016
Small Wounded Things
Sweatpants & Coffee – May, 2014
poems.
I Am Pain
The Lindenwood Review – February, 2024
My Mother Brought Home A Pumice Stone Once
The Fourth River – February, 2020
book reviews.
Ruby Mountain
Hunger Mountain – March, 2017