Born and raised in Miami, I am a scholar, poet, and educator working in the fields of Latinx and Caribbean literature and visual culture. I currently serve as Assistant Professor of Latinx Literature in the Department of English at Central Connecticut State University, and I received my PhD from the Comparative Literature Department at Emory University. The courses I teach engage ethnic studies, feminist and queer theory, postcolonial and decolonial theory, and trauma and memory studies.

My current book project is a comparative study on literary and artistic representations of Cuban and Haitian sea migration. This research grows partly out of my 2023 dissertation, Subjects Adrift, which considers “drifting” figures in twentieth- and twenty-first-century Caribbean texts.

My recent publications include “Art, Relic, or Refuse? The Abject Exhibition of the Cuban Raft and Its Literary Afterlife in the Fiction of Achy Obejas” (in Latino Studies) and “Mimicking Seas and Malefic Mirrors in Suzanne Césaire: An Ecopoetic Theory of Caribbean Subjectivity” (in Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism). Other scholarly and pedagogical projects have been featured in the Smithsonian Learning Lab and the National Humanities Center’s digital library for educators.

My poetry chapbook Flight is a meditation on the multigenerational effects of migration and feminine embodiment, and is available from Volumes Volumes. More of my poems and other critical writings appear in Denver Quarterly, VOLT, Art Practical, Jai-Alai Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, and sx salon.