Education

Ph.D., Georgia State University, 2016

M.F.A., Iowa Writers’ Workshop, 2009

B.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1998

Research Interests

• Fiction
• Folklore
• Latinx Literature
• Borderlands Theory

Honors and Awards

• James C. McCreight Fellowship in Fiction, Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016-2017
• “Hour of the Lizard Man,” Pushcart nomination from Wigleaf, 2016
• Tuition Fellowship, Vermont Studio Center, June 2015
• “Witch Luck.” Winner, Agnes Scott Writers Festival Contest, Judge: Chris Abani, Spring 2015
• Finalist, Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing, Colgate University, 2012
• First Runner Up, Jesse H. Jones Dobie Paisano Fellowship, Texas Institute of Arts & Letters, 2012
• “Laredo.” Television Pilot. Tuition Fellowship, Squaw Valley Writers Conference, 2011
• First Runner Up, Jesse H. Jones Dobie Paisano Fellowship, Texas Institute of Arts & Letters, 2010

Publications

Anthologies

• “The Walking Dance.”  Texas CORE ELA Seventh Grade Curriculum. McGraw Hill Education. November 2018.
• “An Ugly Man.” Flash Fiction International. W.W. Norton. April 2015.
• “An Ugly Man.” Best of the Web 2009. DZANC Books, July 2009
•  “Looking for Eight.” New Stories from the Southwest. Ohio University Press 2008.

Literary Journals

• “He Sings.” New Flash Fiction Review. Issue 15. December 2018.
• “A Serenade for Chago.” Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social. Summer 2016
• “Quince.” Juked. June 2015
• “Hour of the Lizard Man.” Wigleaf.  Spring 2015.
• “Witch Luck.” The Stoneslide Corrective. Spring 2015
• “Tenochtitlán.”  Bodega Magazine.  January 2015
• “Waiting on Dolores.” Bound Off: A Literary Audio Magazine. March 2014.
• “Cucuy.” Blackbird.  Fall 2009
• “Black Water.” Bordersenses. July 2009
• “An Ugly Man.” The Vestal Review.  Summer 2008
• “Don’t Tell Your Mother.”  Storyglossia. Vol XX Summer 2007
• “Looking for Eight.” Indiana Review. Summer 2006