Awards

Best of the Net Nominee, “Central Library Ritual,” Anaheim Poetry Review, 2023
Best of the Net Nominee, “Dendrochronological Melanin,” Torch Literary Arts, 2023
Pushcart Prize Nominee, “When the Ranchero Smiles,” Anaheim Poetry Review, 2023
#1 New Book Release for “Sociology of Abuse” category on Amazon.com, 2023

Publications

Creative Nonfiction

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

Selected Prose

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”

Selected Poems

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

Public Speaking

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

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.