Welcome to my site! I’m an author, a magazine writer, and an enthusiastic commenter on feminism, race, weird natural cures, and other random stuff, in addition to being one meticulous, pain-in-the neck, send it back 1,000 times editor. I’ve edited and contributed work to two books, and am in the process of trying to commit to one voice for my work-in-progress novel. I hope you’ll come back for excerpts, news, and my ongoing blog about Latin life and other musings that may come to mind.
Stay tuned as we populate it with ideas and news about my writing. Please contact me if you have anything specific you’d like to see.
Hi everyone…My article on Thanksgiving Language Wars is live http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2010/11/23/spanish-english-latino-family-gatherings-language-conundrum/
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Hello everyone, I had a great time learning about my people’s bilingual Thanksgiving drama—at least I know I’m not the only one!! Sadly the space FoxNewsLatino.com allotted me was limited, and I wanted to share more of the wonderful stories people sent me from across the country. Scroll down here for more touching and hilarious [...]
There’s nothing more intimidating than the blank page. That’s why the promotional emails infuriated me. “Write a novel in one month!!” “Yeah, right,” I thought. You can file that one in my spam folder, right under “Lose 30 pounds in 10 weeks” and “Earn $60 an hour, without having to leave your house!” I haven’t [...]
In the past, I saw Cinco de Mayo as a joke. I either rolled my eyes at my friend’s dancing sombrero email invitations and hit delete or used it as an excuse to have too many margaritas, just like everyone else.
"Juicy Mangos is an amazingly well done collection of stories...not only a tantalizing read, but a deeply rewarding one as well." Oscar Hijuelos, Pulizer-prize winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.
"Border-Line Personalities provides a....rare and candid glimpse into what it means to be a young Latina in America." Bust magazine.