Awards

125 Most Influential People of Orange County. OC Register. Santa Ana, CA. 2025.

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

Publications

Books Authored

Motherlands, Finishing Line Press. Georgetown, KY. December 2025.

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

Books Edited

Butterflies Over Land, Wokalicious Press. Los Angeles, CA. March 2026.

Anaheim Poetry Review, Volume 3, Anaheim, CA. November 2025.

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

Salt Hill Journal, “the tower of Babel is a queer coded love story,” November 2025.

Headlight Review, “Memory of Exodus,” September 2025.

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