I am a poet, writer, teacher and translator. I also worked as managing editor for The Pacific Review and as faculty advisor for The Coachella Review and Planet Mexicali Magazine.
I recently moved to the Pacific Northwest (Washington State), after residing in California for over 20 years. I am originally from the Dominican Republic but have lived and traveled throughout North and Central America and the Caribbean.
Right now, I am working on a novel (have 290 pages so far) and on my second book of poems (working title: "Meditations on Resiliency." I am also involved in the Bodie Project ("Bodie or Bust) with 20 other writers, recreating the imagined lives of those who inhabited the now ghost town in the late 1800s, early 1900s.
I have taught creative writing (poetry and nonfiction) at the University of California Riverside, the UCR Plam Desert Graduate Center MFA program, Idyllwild Arts Academy and will join the teaching team at the Hugo House in Seattle for the winter 2012 quarter.