Publications

"I was lethal when you was fetal, scratched

records when you feared needles." 

From "What Hip-hop Said When I Looked in the Mirror"

selected Poetry Online

• “Ninth Bullet” in Poets in Pajamas Series, 15 Bytes, April 2022

• “Do You Know Me?” in Utah @ 125, Winter 2021

• “Poem Where We Finally See Mother’s Back” and “What Hip-Hop Said When I looked in the Mirror” in Mapping Literary Utah, 2020

• “Anonas” in Under a Warm Green Linden, Winter 2019

• “What Hip-Hop Said When I Looked in the Mirror” in Viva Macondo, Winter 2019

• “Eight Omens before the Destruction of the Empire,” Chiricu, 2019

• “Mariposa Song for Assemina” in Thrush, 2019

• “Mamoncillo” in American Literary Review, Spring 2019

• “Tía Tere as Cipactli Tlaltecuhtli: A Gangrape in Six Parts,” in Somos en Escrito, Spring 2019

• “Survival Story” in Latino Rebels and Stories from El Salvador, Fall 2018

• “Mama’s Hands” in Crab Orchard Review, Summer 2018

• "Where Papi's Angel Speaks to me about Love," in Guernica, Nov. 2017

• "For brown kids who can't speak Spanish" in Chiricú Journal 1.2 , July 2017

• "sopa de pata" in Kweli Journal, June 2017

• "El Hombre Machete," "Prayer from a hole in the wall," and "papi's belly" in Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Oct. 2016, Pushcart Prize Nomination

• "Goldfish" in Tinderbox, Aug. 2016

• "Pupusas or Lucha" and "Prayer to St. John" in Vinyl Poetry and Prose, May 2016

• "To Kneel" in Solstice Literary Magazine, Spring 2016, chosen for the Solstice Anthology 2016

• "Speaking with my mouth full," "forgotten commandments," and "Tio Chentillo tells us about the shakes" in Acentos Review, Spring 2015

TRANSLATIONS

• Three Poems by Nadie, La Piscucha Magazine, 2019

• Two Poems by Elena Salamanca, La Piscucha Magazine, 2019

• A Star Named Wormwood by Pedro Romero Irula, La Piscucha Magazine, 2019

• Juliana Martinez: A Salvadoran Transwomen from the 1940s, La Piscucha Magazine, 2019

prose online

• Feature on Dr. Nalini Nadkarni: “Protecting Our Forests—One Branch at a Time” in Visit Utah, 2022

• “You Are Where You Eat: Salt Lake Latino’s Perfected Flavors” in Visit Utah, 2020

• Introduction to Christopher Soto in La Piscucha Magazine, 2019

selected Poetry in print

• “After Losing San Agustín, After Finding Izote,” in Pilgrimage, Spring 2019

• “Diaspora,” “Survival Story,” and “Witness” in Antologia de Posguerra, Spring 2019

• “I need $600 dollars by the end of this poem” in Bayou Magazine, 2019

• "Prayer to Abuela Tina" in Zona de Carga, Spring 2018

• "Papi's spirit teaches me the value of shoes" in minnesota review, 2017.

• "mama's tongue hums in the air" in Hayden's Ferry, 2017

• "El Hombre Machete" and "Pupusas o Lucha" in The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States (Tia Chucha Press, 2017)

• "For the Brown Kids Who Can't Speak Spanish" in Chiricu, Spring 2017

• "when the revolution finally comes" and "Where a Boy Prophet Drowns in a Pond" in Juked, Spring 2017

• "Daddy Never Hit a Woman" in Blue Earth Review, Winter 2016.

• "Poem Where Mama Teaches me to Twerk" in The Careless Embrace of the Bone Shaker by great weather for MEDIA, August 2016

• "Snow and Seraphs" in Scribendi, April 2013, click me

• "Cradle Song" in ellipsis... literature & art, winner of the Academy of American Poets Student Poetry Contest, judged by Martin Espada, April 2013