Awards

Finalist, New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition, Postcolonial Motherhood, Finishing Line Press, 2025.

Publications

Books

The Hero and the Whore: Reclaiming Healing and Liberation Through Stories of Sexual Exploitation in the Bible.Westminster John-Knox Press. 2023

Chapbooks

Postcolonial Motherhood, Finishing Line Press, forthcoming.

Contributing Author

Modern Saints. Convergent Books. 2023: “Madonna & Child”

Anthologized Poems

Braving the Body. (ed by Nicole Callahan) Harbor Anthologies, forthcoming 2024: “Hence this Worn Lament”
Anaheim Poetry Review. (ed by Wendy VanCamp). Independently Published. 2023: “When the Ranchero Smiles”
Anaheim Poetry Review. (ed by Wendy VanCamp). Independently Published. 2023: “Valencia Oranges”
Anaheim Poetry Review. (ed by Wendy VanCamp). Independently Published. 2023: “Central Library Ritual”

Literary Journals

BlackStack, “Brush: A Story Told in Routines,” January 2025.

Health Promotion Practice, “[hoops] [gloss] [womb] [loss],” January 2025.

Louisville Review, “aunty culture, part 3,” January 2025.

FIYAH Magazine, “we stim to the moment,” July 2024.

So to Speak Magazine, “overwhelm, a colonial swarm,” May 2024.

So to Speak Magazine, “tricksternometry",” May 2024.

Spoken Black Girl, “Witnessing Dr. E. F. Hoffman’s Diagnoses,” March 2024.

Torch Literary Arts, “Dendrochronological Melanin,” September 2023.

Black Minds Magazine, “Grandmama Lost Her Leg,” January 2023.

Poetry Performances

Anaheim Public Library, “Black Renaissance,” Anaheim, CA. February 2025.

OC Black Culture and Heritage Festival, “Ancestry Lives On,” Anaheim, CA. February 2025.

MiraFlores Grand Opening, “Let me Hold You,” Anaheim, CA. January 2025.

Palabras Literary Salon, “As We Gather,” Boyle Heights, CA. November 2024.

Gilbert High School, “Tia Paz.” Anaheim, CA. November 2024.

Anaheim Public Library, “Postcolonial Motherhood.” Anaheim, CA. November 2024.

Center Greens Park. “There Was a City with No Green.” Anaheim, CA. September 2024.

Anaheim Public Library, Sunkist Branch. “Celebrating Latino/a Poetry.” Anaheim, CA. September 2024.

Downtown Anaheim Exhibit Honoring Chicano Heritage Month, “Tell Me About Your Peace.” Anaheim, CA. September 2024

Muzeo, “Poetic Voices.” Anaheim, CA. September 2024.

Literary Arts Teaching

Roots.Wounds.Words, “Crafting a Thriving Poetry Career,” Philadelphia, PA. January 2025.

Midnight & Indigo, “Tell it Like it is: Writing Verse Journalism,” Virtual. October-November 2024.

Indie Author Day, “Crafting a Writer’s Life,” Anaheim, CA. November 2024.

LibroMobile, “Afro-Latinx Writers y Mas.” Santa Ana, CA. October 2024.

OC Poet Slam, “Inter Dimensional Imagery,” Orange County, CA. October 2024.

826LA, “Chopping Beats, Writing Poems", Los Angeles, CA, July 2024

AnaCon, “The Art of Worldbuilding,” Anaheim, CA April 2024

Our Medicine is Resistance Retreat, “Chiron Mapping and Prophesy Writing,” Santa Cruz, CA, March 2024

AnaCon, “Golden Shovel with Octavia Butler,” Anaheim, CA, April 2023

OC United, 7 Mindsets Orange County, CA, June 2018 - October 2020

Podcasts Produced

Abolition as Resurrection, December 2021 - May 2022
This podcast seeks to understand abolition without co-opting or inserting ideologies that have not been consistent with the movement. Through interviewing abolitionists, theologians, and scholars our goal is to understand if there is a relationship between the theology of Resurrection and the Abolition movement to discover if we can find a path forward that we can implement in our everyday lives.

O Heaux-ly Night November 2020 - December 2020
This is a short devotional podcast series creating space for Women of Color to tell our liberation stories.