I am a Chicana/Tejana doctoral student in English Literature at The University of Texas at Austin. My research interests include Latinx literature, Latinx Popular Culture, and Poetry. My main focus, at the moment, is Latinx Comics and graphic novels. I am the Graduate Assistant at the Latinx Pop Lab at UT, which is under the direction of Dr. Frederick Luis Aldama (Professor Latinx). Most of my scholarly work focuses on women in comics and BIPOC representation in popular culture. Recent presentations include co-facilitating the comics track at The Latinx Critical Creative Consortium, Artist Talk at Our Lady of the Lake, “La Malinche In Space” (Graduate Symposium). My poetry mainly focuses on familial ties, borderland experiences, and everyday observations.
I graduated from Our Lady of the Lake University in San Antonio, Texas with a Masters in Literature, Creative Writing, and Social Justice. I was the Managing Editor for the The Thing Itself for two years while at OLLU (vol 47 and 48). I received my Bachelors in English with a dual concentration in Creative Writing and Professional Writing from The University of Texas at San Antonio. My free time was spent working for the independent student newspaper and magazine The Paisano and The Paisano Plus where I served as the magazine editor. I earned my Associates degree from Lone Star Community College. While at LSC, I worked on The Barker’s Voice as a student editor (issues 5-7).
My most recent creative works have been published in El Mundo Zurdo 7, The Boundless Anthology 2020. My scholarly work will be published in El Mundo Zurdo 8. Reviews on comics and interviews with creatives have been published in Latinx Spaces and Marvel.com