> My essay, “Blackout,” about the year I worked at the New York Times was a runner-up for the Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize! You can read the whole story at Hunger Mountain‘s fabulous website. Here’s a snippet from the essay:

Newsrooms are set up like mazes.

It is an endless series of desks and television screens and everywhere you turn is another white man. You are meant to be the intern who gets lost and can’t find the elevators, or at least I am. Looking out across the third floor, I see only receding hairlines, white foreheads and bushy eyebrows. Somewhere in that I am supposed to find an editor with a name like Bob or Jennifer.

> Check out my short story “Shorty” in Ambientes: New Queer Latino Writing edited by Lázaro Lima and Felice Picano. Read an excerpt here.