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Kitchen Spanish

I pitched, reported, and co-produced this episode for the podcast Racist Sandwich to explore Kitchen Spanish, a sort of practical patois used among English-dominant gringos and Spanish-dominant Latinos that work side-by-side in restaurant kitchens. For this piece, I interviewed staff (in English and Spanish) from restaurants in Grand Rapids, MI, including Donkey Taquería and MeXo. (2018)

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Echoing the Act of Resistance: Translating Literature Written in Spanish by a US-Based Author (paper)

This paper, based on my presentation of the same title at the Observatory of the Spanish Language and Hispanic Cultures in the United States’ 2024

Las Estrellas de Indianápolis

I wrote, edited, and produced this episode of Tertulia about two bilingual Latina journalists who convinced the The Indianapolis Star to start paying attention the

Belonging

The Southern Review published “Belonging,” my English translation of Melanie Márquez Adam’s nonfiction essay “Querencia,” originally written in Spanish. (2022) [print only]