Bellingham Review has nominated my essay, “The Candy Dish,” for a Pushcart! A special thanks to the Djerassi Artist’s Resident Program, where I had a chance to work on this piece, read some Carl Jung, and think more about Cuban fathers, Afro-Cuban religions, and love.

The essay “Stories She Told Us” came to me rather quickly, despite some research into Colombia’s history circa 1970 when my mother left the country. It was a finalist for the 2012 Fourth Genre Steinberg Essay Prize.

In the fiction arena, my short story “Shorty” is in Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing edited by Lázaro Lima and Felice Picano.