Selected Publications

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Fiction:

“Pomelo” - Kweli Journal

Nonfiction:

“The Words Will Come To Me” - Elle Decor

“How Bodegas Became Cultural Centers for Beauty” - Allure

“Home Should Be Relaxing” - Real Simple

“A Bookish Holiday Memory” - The Book Report Network

“Brooklyn Is Where The Heart Is: On Leaving Home To Write About It” - Literary Hub

“Good-Bye to Century 21, The Store Where I Grew Up” - The Cut

“I Quarantined With a Married Couple and Their Baby” - The Cut

“Turns Out It’s Pretty Good: Aging” - The Cut

“My Heart Aches for the Going-Out Tops of Yore” - The Cut

“This Oaxacan Family Is Breaking the Mold of a Centuries-Old Candle-Making Tradition” - Vogue

“In The Heights Is The Epic Celebration of Latinx Culture We All Needed” - Vogue

“Paloma Negra” - Ninth Letter (excerpted in Alien Nation)