Upcoming events
CantoMundo Open Mic – Sept 17 2025 – RSVP here.
Make it, Take it – Fun with Poetry – Sept & Oct 2025 – RSVP here.
Workshops (as an Instructor)
Bilingual Creative Writing – Piper Center – Oct 30 – Nov 6 – Register here.
Writing Borders & Identity – The Writer’s Center – Sep 10 – Oct 4 2025 – Register here.
Latinx/e Creative Writing: Home & Identity workshop. 2025. University of Maryland.
Creative writing workshop 2025 at the Book festival FEXAM II. Phoenix, Arizona.
Creative Writing Workshop 2025 – St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.
Storytelling workshop with MXDC – 15 de mayo y 22 de mayo 2024 – en persona – RSVP here.
Latine Creative Writing workshop – April 11th, 2024 – University of Maryland
Escribiendo monstruos latinos -27 de abril 2024 – Seattle describe – online. RSVP here.
Escribiendo monstruos latinos – 8 de diciembre 2023 – Seattle escribe
Writing Latine Monsters – The Writer’s Center – Sep 2023
Storytelling Workshop – June 2023 – Organized by MXDC. Washington, D.C.
Bilingual Creative Writing Workshop at the Gaithersburg Book Festival – May 2023.
Bilingualism and Public Health Workshop. Milken for la Salud. George Washington University. April 19, 2023.
Bilingual Creative Writing Workshop. George Washington University. Cisneros Hispanic & CCAS. Feb 15, 2023.
Escribiendo Inicios y Fronteras. Writing Beginnings and Borders at the Gaithersburg Book Festival – May 2022.
Escribiendo Inicios y Fronteras. Many Languages One Voice. MLOV. September 2021.
Summer of Storytelling: Building Bridges. Many Languages One Voice. MLOV. July 2021.
Bilingual Creative Writing Workshop. LASC. University of Maryland. April 2021.
Personajes con carácter- Taller impartido en español / Characters with character at the Gaithersburg Book Festival – June 2020
Escritura creativa a través de los sentidos – Creative writing through the senses – Masterclass at Tec de Monterrey, Campus Guadalajara – June 2020
Bilingual Creative Writing Workshop by the Latin American Studies Center – June, 2020.
Escribe creativamente en español by MoonLit – March 31st, 2020, sign up here.
Writing Bilingually at The Writer’s Center – February 2020.
Taller de Literatura y Escritura Creativa – Junio 2019 organized by MXDC.
Creative Writing in Spanish at the Gaithersburg Book Festival – May 2019
Workshops in Spanish at Palabras Bilingual Bookstore 2017- 2018.
Conferences
2025 LASA, San Francisco, California. Poner el cuerpo en Latinx América.
2025 AWP. LA, California. Moderator and panelist. Fragmentos: Reclaiming Hybridity & Fragmentation Through Latine Narratives.
2024 NeMLA. Boston, Massachusetts. Witches in Contemporary Latin America Literature.
2024 AWP. Kansas City. Together, Along the Divide: Writing the New Borderlands.
2024 AWP. Kansas City. The Stages of Writing & Publishing Memoir Panel. Nonfiction Craft & Criticism.
2023 National Women’s Studies Association Conference. Baltimore, Maryland. Latine Women demolishing patriarchal roles through monsters.
2023 NeMLA. Niagara Falls, New York. (Re) Thinking the Role of Magic Creatures in Latin America and Spain.
2022 AWP. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Embracing Bilingual Writing & Bicultural Narratives.
2022 NeMLA. Baltimore, Maryland. (Re)thinking the Role of Mother-Daughter in Contemporary Hispanic Literature.
2022 NeMLA. Baltimore, Maryland. Finding Voices: Empowering Students to Express Their Perspectives.
2019 GRAPHSY, Georgetown University. “La traducción de The House on Mango Street al español como un tercer texto entre la cultura chicana y la mexicana”.
2019 The Limits of the Human, University of Pennsylvania. “Lo post-humano y la relación entre humano-animal en los cuentos de Claudia Hernández De fronteras”.
2018 NonfictioNOW Phoenix, Arizona – Writing Bilingually
2018 NonfictioNOW Phoenix, Arizona – Translating Chicano Literature
2017 NACCS Rocky Mountain Virtual Conference – Future of Chican@/X Studies
Conversación con María Fernanda Ampuero. George Washington University. Abril 2023.
Conversación con Sofía Segovia y su libro El murmullo de las abejas. Instituto mexicano cultural. Febrero 2023.
Q&A with author Edgar Gomez. Latinxpression series. George Washington University. October 2022.
Diálogos Hispanos con Elmer Mendoza. George Washington University. Abril 2022.
Conversation with Edgar Gomez. The Writer’s Center. Upcoming in July 2022. Register here.
Interview with Maria Hinojosa. Prince George’s County Memorial Library System. June 2021.
Virtual Craft Chat with Jennifer De Leon. The Writer’s Center. April 2021.
Hojas de Otoño: Conversaciones a la distancia presenta Alberto Chimal. Mexican Cultural Institute. October 2020.
Craft Happy Hour with Francisco X. Stork. The Writer’s Center. September 2020.
Book Festivals
(as a Reader and/or Presenter)
National Book Festival 2024 & 2025
DC Latino Book Festival 2024 – Host and organizer
Emerging Writers Festival, Arlington, VA – August 2019
Festival del Libro Hispano de Chantilly – July 2019
III Festival del Libro Hispano de Virginia – April 2019
Previous events
Latine Open Mic – The Writer’s Center – Oct 12, 2024 – 6 pm – Register here.
Latine Heritage Through a Literary Lens – Sept 28, 2024 – 1:30 pm – Register here.
More than Saints. Diana Rojas in Conversation with Ofelia Montelongo. Sept 26, 2024. Register here.
Latine Open Mic – The Writer’s Center – May 11, 2024 – 7 pm – Register here.
Latine Workshops event – The Writer’s Center – Sept 14, 2023
Latine Open Mic – The Writer’s Center – Oct 12, 2023- 7 pm.
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