Publications

 

“A Will to Live” - Hayden’s Ferry Review Issue 76, 2026

“What Lies Under Blue,” “Running Through Mesquite Trees,” “Migrational Humor,” “A Series of Forgotten Photographs: Corpus Christi Family Outing - 1993, Amá Takes a Picture of Me Sitting in Front of Our First Desktop Computer & at Night I Look Up Men on Craigslist - 2008, & My Ex-Boyfriend & I on Top of Transmountain - 2015” - Mistake House Issue 12, 2026

Portals” - Zócalo Public Square, 2025

“Abecedarian for My Undocumented Amá’s Tongue in TX”- Shō Poetry No. 7, 2025

“Short Film Starring Me at a Bathhouse” & “A Thousand Springs” - Sonora Review, 2025

“When a Fire Follows” -Shade Literary Arts, 2025

“A Note on Solitude” - Reprinted from American Poetry Review featuredin Poetry Daily, 2025

A Backlog on Beauty” & “A Note on Solitude” - American Poetry Review, 2024

Confessions on the Dance Floor” - Sundog Lit, 2024

“The Boy & the Story of Water”- Poetry Daily, 2024

“La Dopplegänger” - Literary Hub, 2024

“Ars Poética for a First G(ay)eneration Mexican-American” - Columbia Journal, 2023

“Choo-choo” - Split This Rock, 2023, Poem a Week Series *Pushcart Prize Nomination

“This is How I Fight” - Pleiades Magazine, Forthcoming, Winner of a Pleiades Prufer Poetry Prize, judged by Joy Priest, 2023

“In Another Life” - Frontier Poetry, 2022

“Questions for The Rio Grande” - Hobart, 2022

“The Boy Who Lives in Dreams” - Fourteen Hills, 2022

“How to Kill a Goat & Other Monsters” - Blue Mesa Review, 2022 *2nd place Summer Contest Judged by Natalie Scenters-Zapico

“The Boy y El Hombre Que Se Comió El Relámpago” & “Sound of Myself” - FoglifterJournal, 2022

“Pushing My Name Down Their Bodies” - Poet Lore, 2021 *Pushcart Prize Nomination

"Meditation on Grief” - Oyster River Pages, 2021 *Pushcart Prize Nomination

"Notes on Sueñitos" - Cherry Tree, 2021

"13 Reasons Why My Mexican Father Fears Water" - Atlanta Review, 2020

"Illusion of Light" - Quarterly West, 2020

"Listening for Submergence" & "That's Not My Name" - Pidgeonholes, 2020 *Best of The Net Nomination

"My Mother Sees Fireflies" - PANK Magazine, 2020

"When Dreams Come True" & "How To Find The Distance Between Two Points" - Cosmonauts Avenue, 2020

"Defying The Dangers of Being" - The Acentos Review, 2020

"Airball" - Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, 2019

"At Night My Body Waits" & "For My Queer Ancestors" - The Normal School, 2019