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EDUCATION

Texas Tech University
PhD – Literature (current student)
Recipient of the Texas Leadership Research Scholarship, 2024-2028
Graduate Part-Time Instructor, 2024 to present

University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley
MFA – Creative Writing, 2024 (poetry)
Gender & Women’s Studies Graduate Certificate, 2024
Recipient of the Presidential Research Fellowship, 2021 to 2024

University of Texas at San Antonio
BA, American Studies, 2007

PUBLICATIONS and PERFORMANCES

Books

  • the matchstick litanies, Next Page Press, 2023.

  • mouth, Neon Hemlock Press, 2021.

  • Michael + Josephine, novel in verse, Flowersong Press, 2019.

Academic Journal Publications

  • she wears bells: Reimagining Coyolxāuhqui’s story for a hybrid opera using Anzaldúa’s Seven Stages of Conocimiento [play + librettist’s notes], El Mundo Zurdo 9: Selected Academic and Creative Works from the 2022 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa, Aunt Lute, 2024.

 Select Anthology and Print Publications (Creative Writing)

  • “fish bones,” “Crush,” and “caprices,” I Love Us: Queer on the Borderlands anthology, FlowerSong Press, 2025.

  • “how to peel a pomegranate,” “I’m your puppet,” “the impracticality of silk,” and “what we don’t teach them,” in Somox Xicanas Anthology, Somos en escrito Literary Fdn, 2024.

  • “fish bones,” Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, 2025. Curated by Willie Perdomo.

Select Performances and Productions

  • “susto”. Short play performed during Convergencia: Caminos, Puentes, Fronteras y Esperanza, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, May 2024.“she wears bells”.

  • Featured guest artist. Produced and live-streamed with Palo Alto Community College’s Teatro Palo Alto. 2020. Recording named Finalist at Guerilla Underground Virtual Opera Festival, May 2021.

  • “Cascara | this body”. One-woman performance piece at W-I-P (Work In Progress), at Jump-Start Performance Co., March 2019.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Select University Teaching

  • Texas Tech University: ENGL 1301 and 1302 – First Year Writing, Fall 2024 to present.

  • University of Texas Rio Grande Valley: ENGL 4357 – Creative Writing & Social Action, Spring 2024; ENGL 4350 - Advanced Poetry, Fall 2023; ENGL 3351 - Introduction to Creative Writing, Spring 2023 – Fall 2023; ENGL 3353 - Cross-genre Writing, Fall 2022.

Select Workshops, Facilitation and Development

  • “In the Palm of Our Hands: Testimonios and Manifestations”, a one-day workshop on inheritance, ancestors, and mythmaking, El Paso, TX, 2023.

  • “Cultivating Fields: an introduction to poetry”, a 4-session workshop for new or returning poets that looks at ways into new work, and how to build community. Gemini Ink, 2021.

Editor

  • Independent Editor, working one-on-one with new and experienced writers in poetry, hybrid work, or fiction. Also, line edits and revision work to prepare work for publication.

  • Writing & Hybrid Works Editor, OyeDrum Magazine (2022 - 2024).

  • Advisory Editor, FlowerSong Press: critique of initially-accepted manuscripts, assist with copy editing, manuscript development, and/or design (2021 to 2024).

  • Guest Editor, Red Salmon Arts: providing one-on-one mentorship for one to two writers annually, from draft manuscript to published work (2021 to 2024).

Publications Panelist

  • Poetry Judge, 2024 Association of Writers and Writing Programs’ Intro Journals Project literary competition. Eight finalists, 10 honorable mentions, over 250 entries.

  • Panelist, 2023 Gloria Anzaldua Poetry Chapbook Prize, Newfound Journal. Guest Judge: Natalie Diaz.

Select Speaker and Symposium Presenter Engagements - Academic

  • Panelist, “Borderlands of the Self: Queer Latinidad Beyond the Binary,” AWP, 2026.

  • Panelist, “Crafting Testimonios: Student Writing Using Anzaldua’s Seven Stages of Conocimiento,” El Retorno: 20 Years, a symposium in conjunction with El Mundo Zurdo conference, University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley, 2024.

  • Panelist, “Naming/Reclaiming as Praxis: The Role of Artists Toward Decoloniality,” NACCS Tejas Foco, 2023.