Publications

"I was lethal when you was fetal, scratched

records when you feared needles." 

From "What Hip-hop Said When I Looked in the Mirror"

selected Poetry Online

• “Ninth Bullet” in Poets in Pajamas Series, 15 Bytes, April 2022

• “Do You Know Me?” in Utah @ 125, Winter 2021

• “Poem Where We Finally See Mother’s Back” and “What Hip-Hop Said When I looked in the Mirror” in Mapping Literary Utah, 2020

• “Anonas” in Under a Warm Green Linden, Winter 2019

• “What Hip-Hop Said When I Looked in the Mirror” in Viva Macondo, Winter 2019

• “Eight Omens before the Destruction of the Empire,” Chiricu, 2019

• “Mariposa Song for Assemina” in Thrush, 2019

• “Mamoncillo” in American Literary Review, Spring 2019

• “Tía Tere as Cipactli Tlaltecuhtli: A Gangrape in Six Parts,” in Somos en Escrito, Spring 2019

• “Survival Story” in Latino Rebels and Stories from El Salvador, Fall 2018

• “Mama’s Hands” in Crab Orchard Review, Summer 2018

• "Where Papi's Angel Speaks to me about Love," in Guernica, Nov. 2017

• "For brown kids who can't speak Spanish" in Chiricú Journal 1.2 , July 2017

• "sopa de pata" in Kweli Journal, June 2017

• "El Hombre Machete," "Prayer from a hole in the wall," and "papi's belly" in Drunk in a Midnight Choir, Oct. 2016, Pushcart Prize Nomination

• "Goldfish" in Tinderbox, Aug. 2016

• "Pupusas or Lucha" and "Prayer to St. John" in Vinyl Poetry and Prose, May 2016

• "To Kneel" in Solstice Literary Magazine, Spring 2016, chosen for the Solstice Anthology 2016

• "Speaking with my mouth full," "forgotten commandments," and "Tio Chentillo tells us about the shakes" in Acentos Review, Spring 2015

selected fiction Online

• “Check Point” in ellipsis… literature and art, Spring 2025

• “Chepito’s Favorite Funeral” in Moon City Review, Spring 2025

• “On Face Tattoos” in Maudlin House, November 2024

• “42 Years” in Peatsmoke Journal, Spring 2023, under the pen name Ricky Enrique Perez

TRANSLATIONS

• Marco Valerio Reyes Cisfuentes in Plumas Revista, 2024

  • Arithmetic

  • The Dead

  • Last Will

• Marielos Olivo in Plumas Revista, 2024

  • What have you done with your freedom?

  • Blanca

  • Irene

• Pablo Sigüenza Ramírez in Plumas Revista, 2024

  • On the Uses of Paper

  • Sea, Sky, Rain

• Mariela Tax in Plumas Revista, 2024

  • The Evolution of Our Steps

  • No Lies

  • We Don’t Want You To Suffer

selected non-fiction

• “Protecting Our Forests — One Branch at a Time” in Utah: Life Elevated

• “You Are Where You Eat: Salt Lake Latino’s Flavors” in Utah: Life Elevated