I am a Mexican-American writer and Ph.D. candidate in Iberian and Latin American Literatures and Cultures at the University of Texas at Austin. I hold a B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature from the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, and a Master’s in Gender Studies from El Colegio de México.

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    In 2014, I was awarded first place in the International Short Story Contest on Gender Perspective organized by the Centro de Estudios de Género at the Universidad de Guadalajara. My master's thesis, which explores representations of HIV/AIDS and homosexuality in the work of the Taller Documentación Visual, was published by El Colegio de México in 2016.

 

    My first novel, La estatua de azúcar, was published in 2017. Since then, my short stories and poems have appeared in various print and digital platforms across Mexico, the United States, and Spain.

 

    I write across genres—fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction—exploring intersections of queerness, trauma, migration, memory, and spiritual practice. My recent creative work engages themes of PTSD, addiction, and survivorhood, often drawing from lyric and fragmented forms to investigate the porous boundaries between harm and healing, stigma and visibility, the personal and the collective.

 

    As both a scholar and writer, I’m interested in queer archives, Latinx and Mexican literature, HIV/AIDS representation, and the aesthetics of dissidence. My work often dwells in the space where recovery becomes an act of witnessing, and storytelling becomes a form of resistance.

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