A personal review, mixed with memoir, on the dynamic jazz concert featuring Carlos Henriquez’s A Nuyorican Tale, at Dizzy’s Club on December 26th 2023. Sold out crowd. forgive typos in captions. Personal note on the father jail cell lesson mentioned: it was also about landing in a place you shouldn’t be in, but life is…
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Jean, Janus & Comic Book Realism: New Chapbook
The 2022 Chautauqua Janus Prize lecture “Jean, Janus & Comic Book Realism” is now available in chapbook and ebook form. The chapbook that takes you down a wormhole (or two) in handmade, saddle-stitched form. And ebook. And anthology t-shirt bundles. Oh my! Chock-full of craft, comic book realism, family history, historical notes for Puerto Rico…
Coming 2024: “It Ain’t This But That”
Nova Odyssey returns in 2024 in comics format… I and cousin Aaron Guzman have a graphic prose story in the upcoming anthology : From Cocinas To Lucha Libre Ringsides: Latinographix Stories of Sports’ Food & Madness publishing in 2024 with Ohio State University Press. Alongside some amazing comics people, Aaron and I have the story…
Wormholes in Iowa: Teaching at Cornell College
My trip to Cornell College was a three day delight. Graciously hosted every step of the way and greeted by some sharp students eager to create “wormholes” in their graphic storytelling narratives. In workshop over two days we walked through my shared works like “Andromeda” and DR163 and broke down their layers (emphasizing the important role history…
Spec Fic for Dreamers is a 2022 Ignyte Awards Shortlist Finalist
Announcing The 2022 Ignyte Awards Shortlist… Speculative Fiction For Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology is on this list for BEST ANTHOLOGY/COLLECTED WORKS. Check out the bustling list of works and creators, and get out that vote! From the FIYAHCON website: “The Ignyte Awards Committee Is thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2022 Igynte Awards. The…
“35 New And Upcoming Sci-Fi Thrillers You Won’t Want To Put Down”
Speculative Fiction For Dreamers is on this exciting list. “…Packed with 38 YA pieces by Latinx authors, this anthology is a must for short story readers.”
Nice thing to see our panel “Soñando Juntos: Latinx Speculative Futures” for #AWP21 highlighted in The Writer’s Chronicle. The conference takes place virtually March 3-7th 2021. Our panel on Latinx Speculative Futures includes author readings from our works. I read from my prose story, “Jean”, (which intersects with comics as literature) and will be available live for…
Launched 9/21: Kickstarter 4 Speculative Fiction for Dreamers
Finally, a Young Adult Latinx anthology of science fiction and fantasy! Happy to have my story “Jean” in this out-of-this-world book releasing in 2021 with Ohio State University Press. The editors have organized a Kickstarter launched Sept 21, 2020 to 1) preorder a copy of the book while 2) raising money to pay the creators…
INSIDER ART Available in PRINT
Great news! The anthology INSIDER ART is coming to print, via Kickstarter. My prose story (illustrated by Ashley Ribblett) is included, an ode to my grandmother’s bathroom. It’s also a story of the longing of diaspora, intergenerational family living, and if you look and read closely, a little Puerto Rican history. I wrote it during…
