Selected Nonfiction
Selected Essays & Narrative Nonfiction
“Awakening Linguistic Memory: Bilingual Poetry in Mexico and Guatemala,” World Literature Today, September/October 2023
“Isthmus Zapotec Poetry and Hip Hop in Transit: A Remix,” Latin American Literature Today, February 2022
“You Will Not See Zapotec Die: Translation, Hip Hop, and Language Revitalization,” Soundings, Rainier Writing Workshop, Pacific Lutheran University, Fall 2021
"Beautiful Flesh" - Georgia Review, Fall 2015, Republished in the anthology Beautiful Flesh: A Body of Essays and on LitHub in June 2017
"On the Phone" - American Journal of Nursing, August 2014
"Endangered Language: A poet preserves indigenous language through performance" - Orion, November / December 2014
"Coo" - Signs of Life 2013, Seattle, October 2013
“Carrying Words Across Borders: Zapotec Poetry in / on Migration,” Michigan Quarterly Review, "The Translation Issue: Within and Beyond the Metropole" Spring 2013
"Don't Step Here" - Guernica, November 2012
"Life in 98118: Seattle’s Rainier Valley – One of the Nation’s Most Diverse Zip Codes" - One Nation Indivisible, November 2012
"Looking South: The Mexican Isthmus Through Gringo Glasses" - Common-Place: A Common Place, An Uncommon Voice, July 2011
“The Child We Never Had,” Yes! magazine, Winter 2011
“Seeing the Forest, Not Just the Trees: A Guatemalan Village and Conservation” - Terrain: A Journal of Built & Natural Environments, Winter/Spring 2004
Selected Journalism, Analysis & Reviews
"To be an Indigenous Woman Poet in Mexico: An Artistic Act of Protest, Resistance and Battle"
Diálogo: An Interdisciplinary Journal Published by the Center for Latino Research at DePaul University
Fall 2014
"The War on Drugs Destroys Lives—Here Are 6 Things You Can Do About It"
Yes! Magazine online
May 16, 2014
"Legalization is a Human Rights Issue"
Yes! Magazine
Spring 2014
"Mexico's Gruesome Icon: A Review of Devoted to Death"
The Wilson Quarterly
January 2012
“Reclaiming Corn and Culture”
Yes! Magazine
Summer 2008
“The Global Economy Sows New World Disorder”
VIVA NY / The (New York) Daily News
November 17, 2003
“Information Access at the Inter-American Development Bank: The Case of the Plan Puebla-Panama”
freedominfo.org
November 2003
“Paving the Way for Corporate Control: The Plan Puebla Panama”
VIVA NY / The (New York) Daily News
September 7, 2003
“The Politics of Representation”
ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America
Summer 2003
“Two Ways to Beat a Shrimp Farm: Community Organizing in Mexico and Guatemala”
NACLA Report on the Americas
May/June 2003
“Public Relations Firm to the Rescue of Plan Puebla-Panama”
PPP Spotlight Series, Americas Policy
September 10, 2003
“Combating Coca-Cola and the Global Conquistadores in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec”
ColorLines: Race-Culture-Action
Summer 2003
“Nicaraguan Transportation Corridor Developers Hitch Hopes to Plan Puebla-Panama (PPP)”
Americas Policy
April 10, 2002
“Farms vs. Factories: Planning the Future for the ‘Under-Exploited’ of Mexico and Central America”
Texas Observer
February 1, 2002