ABOUT
I am a Mexican-American poet, translator, and researcher. I write about migration as a lived experience and seek to deconstruct harmful political narratives in my literary and academic work.
With an interest in cultural exchange and understanding, I have translated and cotranslated several works from the Catalan and Spanish to the English, most recently the book Contemporary Global Thinking from Latin American Women. I also enjoy cotranslating Catalan novels with Megan Berkobien. Together, we've worked on books by Montserrat Roig, Muriel Villanueva, and Susanna Rafart. As a poet, I have also written several books (Raw Age / La hora cruda with Dharma Books in Mexico; the hybrid book of poetry and short stories Fantasía fértil with Medusa Editorial in the Pyrenées; and the chapbook Sueños de la malaria with Herring Publishers in Mexico). My work can also be found in the anthology of women writers Monstrua, published by UNAM.
In the realm of sociology, my work focuses on migration in North America, specifically on the desirability of open borders. I recently finished a PhD at the University of Mexico (UNAM) on the reintegration of people who are deported from the United States to Mexico, through the arts.
Before that, I studied a master's in translation at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, and a bachelor's in creative writing and political science at Columbia University.
With an interest in cultural exchange and understanding, I have translated and cotranslated several works from the Catalan and Spanish to the English, most recently the book Contemporary Global Thinking from Latin American Women. I also enjoy cotranslating Catalan novels with Megan Berkobien. Together, we've worked on books by Montserrat Roig, Muriel Villanueva, and Susanna Rafart. As a poet, I have also written several books (Raw Age / La hora cruda with Dharma Books in Mexico; the hybrid book of poetry and short stories Fantasía fértil with Medusa Editorial in the Pyrenées; and the chapbook Sueños de la malaria with Herring Publishers in Mexico). My work can also be found in the anthology of women writers Monstrua, published by UNAM.
In the realm of sociology, my work focuses on migration in North America, specifically on the desirability of open borders. I recently finished a PhD at the University of Mexico (UNAM) on the reintegration of people who are deported from the United States to Mexico, through the arts.
Before that, I studied a master's in translation at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, and a bachelor's in creative writing and political science at Columbia University.
