Selected Publications
Fiction
“Strongman,” About Place Journal, October 2024
“False Flag,” Citric Acid, 2022
“Everyone was Singing ‘Freiheit,’” Air/Light, 2021
Poetry
“A Different Kind of Fire,” The Journal of the Plague Years, February 2025
“Ransom Note,” So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, 2025
“Dear Roy,” The Ear, May 2025
“Ocean Park,” My California, a project of California Poet Laureate Lee Herrick and the California Arts Council, July 2024
“In the College Writing Center,” So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, 2023
“the heavy weather of childhood,” Anacapa Review, March 2023
"Weather Report for the April 12, 2021 KKK Rally in Huntington Beach, California," Flush Left, 2023
“Aiding and Abetting,” Rise Up Review, 2022
“Uncle Johnny Wants to Drive,” Santa Ana Poem of the Week, Santa Ana Literary Association, 2021
“Revolutionary Letters: 1-36: An Anarchic Cento,” More Revolutionary Letters: A Tribute to Diane di Prima, Wisdom Body Collective, 2021.
“It Could: One End,” TAB: the Journal of Poetry and Poetics, 2020
“Telephone Call, late evening,” [PANK] Latinx Lit Celebration, 2020
“On the Origin of Karl Marx,” So It Goes: The Literary Journal of the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library, 2020
“CPR,” Poems in the Afterglow, 2020
“Drought Sonnet,” California Fire and Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology, edited by Molly Fisk, Story Street Press, 2020.
“To the Drummer Who Lives Down the Hill,” Off Assignment, 2020
“Imagining my Grandmother on the Laredo Bridge, March 21, 1917,” Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, 2020
“On the Origin of Karl Marx” SWIMM, 2019
“Nine Line Cento for Now,” What Rough Beast, 2019
“1974,” Huizache, 2018
“Funeraria Familiar,” Huizache, 2018
“She Fears. A Villanelle.” What Rough Beast, 2018
“At the Free Clinic, 1977,” Huizache, 2016
“ ‘Man Killed in Shootout with Miami-Dade Police’: Marvin Arroliga,” Lament for the Dead, 2015
“At the Last Bookstore,” Zocalo Public Square, 2015
“Critical Race Theory: The Year in Review 2014,” Truthdig, 2015
“Reading Last Week’s Newspaper Today,” Codex Journal, 2014
Nonfiction
“Just Down the Road,” The Journal of the Plague Years, June 2025
“Farther Along,” Women in a Golden State (Gunpowder Press 2025), edited by Chryss Yost and Diana Raab.
“The Sound of Silence,” The Journal of the Plague Years, December 2024
“A reading guide to legendary Colombian author Gabriel García Márquez,” Los Angeles Times, 2021
“The riots are an L.A. story, but one that tells the future for the rest of the country,” Los Angeles Times, 2017
“Brothel,” Los Angeles Review of Books, 2018
“Intro to Women’s Studies or Too Much Margaret Atwood,” Only Light Can Do That: 100 Post-Election Poems, Short Stories & Essays (The Rattling Wall/PEN Center USA 2016) edited by Michelle Franke.
Editing
Why to These Rocks: 50 Years of Poetry from the Community of Writers (Heyday 2021)
Orange County: A Literary Field Guide (Heyday 2017) co-edited with Andrew Tonkovich
Writers Workshop in a Book: The Community of Writers on the Art of Fiction (Chronicle Books 2007) co-edited with Alan Cheuse
Anthologies
“Farther Along,” Women in a Golden State (Gunpowder Press 2025), edited by Chryss Yost and Diana Raab.
“Parker Center,” excerpted in Dear California: The Golden State in Diaries and Letters (Stanford University Press 2023), edited by David Kipen
“At the Free Clinic, 1977,” Rumors, Secrets and Lies: Poems about Pregnancy, Abortion and Choice (Anhinga Press 2022) edited by Carol Lynne Knight and Kristine Snodgrass
“Joe, also known as Mossayeb,” The Covid Monologues (Breath of Fire Theater Ensemble 2022), winner of the 2023 International Latino Book Award for Best Play
“Revolutionary Letters 1-36: An Anarchic Cento,” More Revolutionary Letters: A Tribute to Diane di Prima (Wisdom Body Collective 2021)
“Drought Sonnet,” California Fire & Water: A Climate Crisis Anthology (Story Street Press 2020) edited by Molly Fisk
“Intro to Women’s Studies or Too Much Margaret Atwood,” Only Light Can Do That: 100 Post-Election Poems, Short Stories & Essays (The Rattling Wall/PEN Center USA 2016) edited by Michelle Franke
“Cielito Lindo,” Creative Writing: An Introduction to Poetry and Fiction (Bedford/St. Martin’s 2013) edited by David Starkey
“Cielito Lindo,” Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (Norton 2010) edited by Robert Shapard, James Thomas and Ray Gonzales
“Sweet Time,” Latinos in Lotusland (Bilingual Press 2009) edited by Daniel Olivas
“Parker Center,” Geography of Rage: Remembering the Los Angeles Riots of 1992 (Really Great Books 2002) edited Jervey Tervalon
Staged Readings/Performances/Gallery Shows
“Joe, also known as Mossayeb,” produced as part of the livestream of Breath of Fire’s The Covid Monologues at the Musco Center for the Arts, part of the Heartbeat of Mexico celebration, Chapman University, May 2021
“La Falda de Ayotizinapa” (mixed media) and “Reading Last Week’s Newspaper Today,” (mixed media broadside poem) contributions to two-person show, “La Maestra,” at Crear Studio, Santa Ana, October-November 2021
“Ocean Park and other Neighborhoods,” staged readings of four stories, part of the New Short Fiction Series, produced and directed by Sally Shore, March 2020