About Me

The page is all around us. Our eye is the beholder. How do we “read” words, objects, and each other? Through poetry, installation, photography, and experimental film, my practice investigates perception and the subset of processes that are reading, misreading, and translation. I am interested in kindness.

I’m a poet, translator, and interdisciplinary artist. My poetry, translations, and fiction have appeared in Best New Poets 2016 and 2020, the 2023 Best of the Net Anthology, Poets.org, Poetry Daily, Split this Rock, as well as numerous journals. I am the recipient of fellowships from CantoMundo, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. I have the good fortune to teach translation courses, in addition to poetry workshops in Spanish and in English at Stanford University. I’m a former member of San Francisco’s Right Window Gallery. Rumor has it I’ve dressed as a human-sized gold nugget and performed anti-Trump poems in front of San Francisco City Hall.

My debut poetry collection, The Disordered Alphabet (Four Way Books, 2023), was short-listed for the California Independent Booksellers Alliance 2023 Golden Poppy Award in Poetry and received the North American Book Award's Silver Medal in Poetry.