As a writer (they/them; sometimes he or she), my work in fiction, drama, and journalism has appeared or is forthcoming in Slate, Mother Jones, Drop Site News, The New Republic, The Intercept, The Nib, Columbia Journalism Review, The New York Review of Books, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Medium.com, Electric Literature, Thriller Magazine, Yes! Magazine, The Guardian, The Nation, Huffington Post, McClatchy Newspapers, Electronic Intifada, Food Not Bombs/Tucson Food Share radical zine (summer 2020), Break the Wall Theatre Project, and elsewhere.
I am currently a 2025 news fellow at ChangeWire. I recently completed an Emerging Voices literary fellowship at PEN America.
My essay, "The Hot Dogs and the Notebook," published in Slate magazine in October 2023, was ranked as a finalist in "Humor Writing" for The LA Press Club's 2024 Arts and Entertainment Awards. This same year I worked for The New Republic and The Border Chronicle, and was supported by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
Also in 2024, I worked for The Baffler writing about the Koch network's activities in Arizona to eliminate public education.
In July 2023, the Fund for Investigative Journalism awarded me their first Seed grant to support my work on mass shootings.
In 2022 and 2023, I worked for palabra., part of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists as well as Mother Jones and The Nib to write on issues concerning policing and education.
In November 2021, the Fund for Investigative Journalism backed my work on policing. In 2018, I was bestowed a "Change Maker" award by the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice (under chairperson and resident anarchist Noam Chomsky) at the University of Arizona, where I've been a non-credentialed literary fellow since then, awarded funding to produce Into the Sun, a sci-fi "climate fantasy" graphic novel about borders and climate breakdown. (See "Publications' and "Current Work" on this website for more details.)
In Dec. 2019, The Robert B. Silvers Foundation, established by the late co-founder of The New York Review of Books, awarded me its inaugural Work in Progress grant for an ongoing journalism investigation sponsored by the Economic Hardship Reporting Project.
In 2020, I crossed over to screenwriting where some of the biggest Hollywood contests -- The International PAGE Awards, Screencraft, and The Script Lab -- each ranked my debut script about an anti-Nazi resistance fighter, in their quarter-finals categories (90th percentile of 24,000+ scripts entered) and Screencraft's semi-finals. The Sundance Film Institute, meanwhile, scored a feature script that I and a co-author to advance to final consideration (out of 4000 scripts entered) for their esteemed 2021 Screenwriters Lab that cultivated such scripts as Boots Riley's "Sorry to Bother You," Quentin Tarantino's "Reservoir Dogs," Ryan Coogler's "Fruitvale Station," and many others.
I am a member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ), the National Association of LGBTQ Journalists (NLGJA), and Study Hall, a magnificent resource for freelance journalists.
My mother was born in Navajoa, Sonora (Mexico) and migrated as a child with my nana (grandmother) to Southern Arizona where I was eventually born in the gorgeous Sonoran desert city of Tucson. Add to that a father born in Italy, and I grew up with borders and colonization in my blood, home, and public life. Toward a no-borders world!