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WRITING

TUNNELS | THE NORMAL SCHOOL
2017 Best American Short Stories - Other Distinguished Stories
2016 Pushcart Prize Nominee

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ASSEMBLING AN ORIGAMI CRANE | GRIMOIRE MAGAZINE
2014 Finalist: AROHO Orlando Prize (Flash Fiction) 

BRUJERIA FOR BEGINNERS | EXIGENCIES: NEO-NOIR ANTHOLOGY

2012 Finalist: AROHO Orlando Prize (Short Fiction)

CLAP IF YOU BELIEVE | THE RATTLING WALL

Reprint: Choose Wisely: 35 Woman Up To No Good (Upper Rubber Boot Books)

HOW TO MAKE TAMALESLos Angeles Times

Reprinted from Kweli Journal (July 2011)

2016 MFA Creative Writing: Latin America - Queens University of Charlotte

2012 VONA/Voices J. Luckett Scholarship

2010 Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Foundation Fiction Scholar

2008 PEN Emerging Voices Fellow

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