Bio

Of Colombian and Puerto Rican decent, I was born in New York and raised in Latin America. I am the author of 4 books and a chapbook: Telescope (Action Books), 32 Pedals & 47 Stops (a chapbook with Tarpaulin Sky Press), The Tree of No (Action Books), On Wonderland & Waste (forthcoming with Sidebrow Press), and Prelude to Air From Water (forthcoming with Elixir Press). I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University, a PhD in English & Creative Writing from the University of Denver, and I've been awarded residencies at Caldera Arts, Stonehouse, and the Vermont Studio Center. I have also been awarded Elixir's Editor's Prize, New Voices' Sudden Fiction Prize, and Brown University's Francis Mason Harris Award for best book written by a woman. One of my circulating manuscripts came in semi-finalist for the Ahsahta Sawtooth Poetry Prize. I currently live in San Francisco and am an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts.