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Back in My Body

Mexican writer Daniela Becerra and I met when we both had pieces in Spanish selected for the #Evolving series published by Spanglish Voces. My piece was a poem (“Homenaje a mi panza”), hers was short nonfiction (“Volver a habitar el cuerpo”), but we both sensed a connection between our writing, particularly along the themes of motherhood and the female body as a place where cruelty, self-loathing, love, and new life manifest themselves in a palpable way. Spanglish Voces recently published my English translation of Becerra’s nonfiction piece, “Back in My Body.” (2021)

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Back in My Body (video)

Mexican writer Daniela Becerra and I recorded this bilingual reading of her original piece and my translation (“Volver a habitar el cuerpo” / “Back in

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Anything for La Brega

I wrote this reflection on two bilingual podcasts, Anything for Selena and La Brega, for the Translation Issue of the podcast newsletter Bello Collective. I

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