Prose, Poetry & Articles

• “Visiting Guatemala, my parents’ homeland, transported me to my childhood memories,” The Boston Globe. September 2022.
  
• “Tajumulco,” Harvard Review. March 2021.
• “My Mother, Who Could Have Been So Many Things,” Cognoscenti. August 2020.
• “How to Become a Writer (Of Color),” We Need Diverse Books. August 2020.
• “Jennifer De Leon Celebrates Trailblazing YA Literature,” Goodreads. August 2020.
• “Finding Hope & Humanity at the Border,” Cognoscenti. September 2019.
• “House Keepers,” The Iowa Review. Winter. 2019.
• “Work,” Michigan Quarterly Review. Summer 2018.
• “A Pink Dress.” All the Women in My Family Sing: An Anthology by Women of Color (Nothing But the Truth Publishing, 2018).
• “Gyms.” Prairie Schooner. Winter 2017.
• “Mother Tongue.” This is the Place (Seal Press, 2017).
• “Mirrors & Windows: Finding Diversity at the Color of Children’s Literature Conference.” Poets & Writers Mar/Apr 2017.
• “Return and Repeat, Culminate and Continue.” Poets & Writers Sep/Oct 2016.
• “Drilling Down: A Universal Story Must Also Be a Specific One.” The Writer. July 2016.
• “Ethnicity & Craft: Creating Characters, Not Caricatures.” Poets & Writers Jan/Feb 2015.
•  “Ashes.” Dismantle. May 2014.
• “Lucky Woman.” Southeast Review. Fall 2013.
• “Wise Latina.” Drunken Boat. Fall 2013.
• “A Map of the World.” Brevity. Fall 2013.
• “Mapping Yolanda.” Ploughshares. Fall 2013.
• “The White Space.” Fourth Genre. Spring 2012.
• “Home Movie.” Briar Cliff Review. Spring 2012.
• “Round Three.” Generations Literary Magazine. Fall 2010.
• “Ashes.” Kweli Journal. Aug. 2010. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2011.
• “The Broken Clock.” Guernica. Dec. 2009.                                                          
• “First Day.” Best Women’s Travel Tales 2010.
• “The Flea Market in Lynn.” Solstice. Fall 2009.
• “The White Ceiling.” Ms. March/April 2000.