California Silence, winner of the Ottoline Book Prize, forthcoming Fall/ Winter 2026 by FENCE Books
Love through Ekphrasis, Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop, and tour to the Marguiles Collection in Wynwood, Creator, and Moderator in collaboration with Professor Dr. Rachel Weiss (on-site at the Marguiles Collection), English & Liberal Arts Department, and MILLAS Team at Miami Dade College, West, Spring, February 14, 2025
When AI Writes Our Stories, A Conversation about AI with guest speakers (law enforcement, cybersecurity, writers) Facilitator and Co-Moderator, along with Professor Alissa Stone, MFA, Miami Dade College, West, Spring, March 19, 2024
Philosophy in the Anthropocene, Classical Greek Philosophy and Sustainability in the 21st century, Featuring the philosophy of Epicurus with Professor Dr. Sarah Jacob. Curator, Writer, and Presenter of Eco-poetry, Miami Dade College, West, Spring, March 12, 2024
Best of the Net Nominee, on a kayak in this miami bedroom, Rising Phoenix Review
Faculty Fellowship, XM Sci-Fi Institute Summer 2023, FIU Science & Fiction Lab
Arts & Letters, Poetry Slam Miami Dade College, Kendall, Spring 2024, April 5, 2023
how to speak: miami at TWILIGHT, on a kayak in this miami bedroom, The Rising Phoenix Review 2023
at the local chain coffee shop over decaf, too late in the day for another expresso, Odes to Our Undoing Writers Reflecting on Crisis by Risk Press 2022
The Miami Cemetery, The Islandia Journal Issue Four 2022
California Silence, Finalist for the Andres Montoya Poetry Prize by Letras Latinas Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame 2022
Poem (Zip Ode) WLRN/ O, Miami Zip Ode Project, O, Miami Poetry Festival 2022
manuscript California Silence, semi-finalist for the 2021 lighthouse poetry series by Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Community of Writers, Ancinas Family Scholarship 2021
Under the Volcano, Sandra Cisneros Fellow 2021
manuscript California Silence, Finalist for the 2020 Autumn House Press Poetry Prize
MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from Saint Mary's College of California
recipient of the School of Liberal Arts Dean's Award from (SMC) Saint Mary's College of California
Hedgebrook Bridging Writing Residencies, California, 2019 & 2018
Spoken Word
The Lab in San Francisco
Nuyorican Poets Cafe in New York City
Books & Books in Coral Gables
Fiction
Screenplays & projects Hollywood, California (Los Angeles) 2017-2020
Documentary
Interviewed for CNN & HBO Films documentary Latino in America
Editor & Contributor
Written Here and There 2021 Poetry Review
(2021- 2022)
Reader & Contributor
(2018-2020)
Mary: A Journal of New Writing
