Boricua. Poet. Spanglish. Educator. Translator.
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Education
BA, Writing, Ithaca College, Ithaca NY 2010-15
Certificate, Translation, University of Massachusetts, Boston 2015-16
MFA, Poetry, Arizona State University 2020-23
Awards, Fellowships, and Grants
2021 Fellow, Center of Philosophical Technologies at Arizona State University.
Creative Engagement Fellowship, Virginia C. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Arizona State University. April 2021.
2021 Katherine C. Turner Prize, Academy of American Poets. June 2021.
Award for Innovation In Creative Research, Center for Imagination of the Borderlands. December 2021.
Fellowship for Cultural Engagement in the Literary Arts, Virginia C. Piper Center for Creative Writing, Arizona State University. February 2022.
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Ruminate Magazine for “Excerpts from “Sotheby’s Says My Country is a Tax Incentive.” Spring 2022.
Finalist of the 2022 Alice James Books Award for manuscript-in-progress, Brief on the History of Naming. March 2022.
2nd Place Award for Graduate Poetry. 60th Annual Glendon and Kathryn Swarthout Awards in Writing. Arizona State University. April 2022.
2022-23 June Jordan Teaching Fellow, Department of English, Arizona State University.
Residencies
Hambidge Center, Jul-Aug 2021
Rockvale Writers’ Colony, May 2021.
Selected Workshops (outside of academia)
Banff Centre Fall Writers Session with Orlando White, Dec 2021.
Tin House Summer Workshop with Raquel Salas Rivera, Jul 2021.
92Y Unterberg Poetry Center, "Advanced Poetry Workshop" with Jenny Xie, Jun 2020.
Lighthouse Writers Workshop, "Declarations" with Danez Smith, Jun 13-14 2020.
The Speakeasy Project, "Write Side by Side" with Dr. Raina Leon, Feb-Mar 2020.
Brooklyn Poets, "Poetic Sequence" with Grace Shuyi Liew, Nov-Dec 2019.
Teaching Experience
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 2020-23
Recent Editorial Experience
Translations Editor, Hayden Ferry’s Review Aug 2021 – May 2023
Poetry Reader, Hayden’s Ferry Review Jan 2022 – May 2023
Guest Web Editor, Hayden’s Ferry Review Spring 2022
Guest Editor, Response Journal, Issue 04 May 2022