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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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Reunion

The Southern Review published “Reunion,” my English translation of Sylvia Iparraguirre’s short story “Encontrando a Celina,” originally written in Spanish. (2022) [print only]

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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

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