NEW LETTERS Literary Awards Winner
Winner of the Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction
The winning piece "Not Your Cinema Paradiso" is an excerpt from Mother City, a coming-of-age immigrant novel that obsesses over the cruelties of exile. Girlhood, love, belonging, not belonging—what we leave behind when we go onto the rest of our lives.
A young woman is trying to decipher where she’s come from and where she's headed while her family cinema business in Venezuela is quickly deteriorating. Set in the late 70s and early 80s, we are thrown into a world crossing national borders and see how completely our lives can change, and how quickly.https://www.newletters.org/awards-2024/
I am currently seeking agent representation.
The winning piece "Not Your Cinema Paradiso" is an excerpt from Mother City, a coming-of-age immigrant novel that obsesses over the cruelties of exile. Girlhood, love, belonging, not belonging—what we leave behind when we go onto the rest of our lives.
A young woman is trying to decipher where she’s come from and where she's headed while her family cinema business in Venezuela is quickly deteriorating. Set in the late 70s and early 80s, we are thrown into a world crossing national borders and see how completely our lives can change, and how quickly.https://www.newletters.org/awards-2024/
I am currently seeking agent representation.
UCROSS Foundation
Spring 2026 Fellow in Literature www.ucrossfoundation.org
Spring 2026 Fellow in Literature www.ucrossfoundation.org
PERIPLUS Collective
Class of 2026 Fellowlithub.com/announcing-the-2026-class-of-periplus-fellows/lithub.com
Class of 2026 Fellowlithub.com/announcing-the-2026-class-of-periplus-fellows/lithub.com
Sewanee Writers' Conference
2025 Tennessee Williams Scholarship Recipient https://sewaneewriters.org/participants/
2025 Tennessee Williams Scholarship Recipient https://sewaneewriters.org/participants/
Hispanic Culture Review
2nd Place in 2022 Poetry Competition gmu/docs
2nd Place in 2022 Poetry Competition gmu/docs
Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts
2021 Finalist Barry Lopez Nonfiction Contest www.cutthroatmag.com/contest_finalists.html
2021 Finalist Barry Lopez Nonfiction Contest www.cutthroatmag.com/contest_finalists.html
Waltham Forest Poetry Competition
2021 Shortlisted .wordpress.com/2021
2021 Shortlisted .wordpress.com/2021