BOOKS

NEON STEEL (Spec Fiction/Hybrid). February 2026.

Kinds of Grace: Poems. June 2024.

When Trying to Return Home: Stories February 2023.

SCAR ON/SCAR OFF (Hybrid). October 2017’.

SELECTED FICTION

The Girl in Bomba Dress. Latin@ Literatures., nominated for a Puschart Prize 2024.

Black Planet. Boston Review. 2024.

Viper/Sweet. Hong Kong Review. 2024. nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Where You Are Going, I Have Been.”. 2024. The Texas Review.

“Jacob Under God.” BULL. 2024.

“Gemelo.” Jabberwock Review. Print/Online. 2024.

“Recognition.” Wigleaf. 2023.

“Mama Diaspora,” “Help I’m Fine!” Columbia Journal. 2020.

“Torsion.” Vassar Review. Print. Awarded Special Mention in Pushcart Prize 2019 anthology.

“I Don’t Know Where I’m Bound” (reprint). In BULL’s FRAGILE AS A BOMB anthology, Joe Clifford’s Just to Watch Them Die: Johnny Cash Anthology and WHEN TRYING TO RETURN HOME.

“The Missing One.” (published originally as “Bagmen”) Jabberwock Review. Print. Received a Pushcart Prize Nomination. Review by NewPages here. 2017.

“Wingman.” Cultural Daily. 2024. Review by Aarik Danielsen here.

“Nothing, Love.” New Delta Review. 2016.

“The Other Saints of New Orleans.” Deep South Magazine. 2014.

“Esperando” (published in When Trying to Return Home as “La Espera.”) Pleiades. Print. Received Pushcart nomination. 2018.

Excerpt from Kingfolk: A Novel. Inspicio Magazine. 2018.

FORTHCOMING:
”Smoke Break.” J Journal (CUNY/John Jay School of Criminal Justice.)

“For August Wilson and Romare Bearden.” SOMOS Latinx Literary Magazine. (Brown University).

“Neon Steel”: BIMBO Feminist Anthology.

SELECTED POETRY

“Loriella is Dead.” Academy of American Poets University Award winner. Originally appears in Puerto del Sol and republished in Verse Daily . 2016.

“Power.” “native daughter”. Midway Journal. 2024

“Inevitable.” SWIMM “Poem-Of-The-Day., first accepted by Afro-Hispanic Review.

“Love Songs for Oceans.” from Kinds of Grace. Received a Pushcart Nomination.

While Viewing the 2024 Exit Polls. Poets Reading the News. 2024.

“Because Tigers,” “In Daddy’s House.” Acentos Review. 2020.

“Apagón.” Puerto Rico en mi corazón (Anomalous Press). Ed. by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, Ricardo Maldonado, Carina Del Valle Schorske, & Erica Mena. Originially appears in Entropy. 2017.

“Old Blood.” Split this Rock: Poem of the Week. 2016.

“When Trying to Return Home” republished in Latinas: Protest and Struggles. Originally appears in Aspasiology. 2017.

“Ghosts of Dead Boy Street,” For Harriet. 2016.

“Rebeled-Language.” Originally published in Luna Luna. Reprinted at University of Missouri’s Arist-in-Residence. 2020.

 “Afro-Colossus.” The BreakBeatPoets: LATINEXT. 2020.

“Dark Woman” “On Vacation” “Happy Day.” La Libreta Online. 2023.

“Ancestry.” Journal of Western Folklore. 2023.

“Name.” West Tresle Review. 2024.

“Girl Candela” “After Psalm 23” “Baggage” “Kinds of Grace.”  Writing the Self-Elegy: The Past Is Not Disappearing Ink. 2023.

“Past” “Aren’t You Afraid?” “Retribution” “Rooting” “Without Control.” Big Other. 2022.

“Lost in Montjuïc, After Losing.” “Descansar.” Zone 3. 2021.

“Waiting” “In the Meadow” “Mental Health” “Worst Case Scenario.” These Black Bodies Are… ed. Romaine Washington. 2023

FORTHCOMING:

“V.S” (received a Pushcart Prize nomination) “Kansas City Lights” “That Time Puerto Rico Beat the U.S. By Twenty Points in the First Round of the Olympics”
”El Chiste Interno en Rio Piedras” “Friendship” “Online” “Boy” (BIMBO: A Feminist Anthology).

HYBRID

“Fore-Mothers: Recreation, Canonization, Diaspora.” Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora. Received a Pushcart nomination. 2021.

“Summer Love on Sidewalks” “We Are Always At Somebody’s Party. Literary Orphans. The Seattle Review of Books calls “Summer Love on Sidewalks” a story of the day. 2016.

“The Animal Sees its Own Face.” Mothman Was Here: Tales of the Uncanny (Ten Penny Books). ed. William Woolfitt.

Forthcoming:

  “Puerto Rican Manic Pixie Dream Girl,” “We Are Like Jazz” “Voices.” BIMBO: A Feminist Anthology. ed. Madison Whatley. 2024.

CREATIVE NON-FICTION/NON-FICTION/CRITICAL

“An End.” Columbia Journal. 2016.

“Baby Dolls.” The Los Angeles Review. 2017.

“But There is Also Rosa.” Passages North. Received Best of Net 2017 award.

“Access.” Making Good Time: True Stories of How We Do, and Don’t, Get Around in South Florida (Jai Alai Books). Anthology. Print. ed. Lynne Barrett. 2019.

"My Mother is My Homeland': Subversive Representations of the Black Puerto Rican Matriarch in Our Lady of the Night/ Nuestra Señora de la noche by Mayra Santos-Febres and Now We Will Be Happy by Amina Gautier". Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies. 2023.

“!0 Afro-Latinas You Need to Read Right Now.”  Electric Literature. 2023.