Selected Essays & Narrative Nonfiction
“Intrepid Identity: To Be Young, Indigenous, and Gay
in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec”
Finalist, 2008 Nonfiction Award, Alligator Juniper
2009
"Grief's Hidden Gift: What I Learned About Happiness During My Mom's Last Days With Cancer"
Winner, 2009 Excellence in Journalism Award,
Society of Professional Journalists, Washington chapter
Yes! Magazine
Winter 2009
"See Something? Say Something!"
Experience: Centrum's Magazine for the Creative Life
Vol. 3, Summer 2008
“Facing Loss and the Page:
My First Year as Writer-in-Residence”
Re-write: A Quarterly Publication of Richard Hugo House
Vol 10, No 4, Winter 2008
“Seeing the Forest, Not Just the Trees: A Guatemalan Village and Conservation”
Terrain: A Journal of Built & Natural Environments
Issue No. 14, Winter/Spring 2004
“The Politics of Representation”
ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America
Summer 2003
“Learning to Distinguish Bicycles from Refrigerators: A Letter from Tehuantepec”
Blue Mesa Review,
Issue 15, Spring 2003
“Living Elsewhere in 16 Steps”
co-authored with Sasha Welland
Chain, Issue 9: Dialogue (pages 59-69)
Summer 2002
“A Man, a Plan, Expansion: The Puebla Panama Plan”
ICWA Letters
June 2001
“Lines in the Sand”
ICWA Letters
March 2001
Winner, Best of the Web Award, 2001, mexicoconnect.com
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Read my short story translation, "By Pure Force," by the Mexican-American novelist María de Lourdes Victoria, which appears in Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry 's Special Mexico Issue (Spring 2009). Email me (see below) to order a copy of the journal.
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Photo above:
This carved stela, at Monte Albán, Oaxaca, is a fine example of Zapotec writing, still only partly deciphered, 1995.
Photo to right: These spiny trees, common around the city of Juchitán, in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, gave the city its name, 2000. |
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