I am currently the Poet Laureate for Corpus Christi (2023-24), and my work is recently published in Equinox, RiverSedge, and Club Plum Lit which nominated my work for a Pushcart Prize in Dec 2024. My poetry chapbook, In the Temple of Shining Mercy, was awarded first-place and published by Iron Horse Literary Press, 2017. I teach and serve as co-founding senior executive editor for The Windward Review: Literary Journal of the South Texas Coastal Bend (embarking on Volume 23), and on the People’s Literary Festival committee of Corpus Christi for ten years. I have been an active leader within my South Texas community as a teacher, writer, and editor, helping to curate spaces for queer voices, especially those of us in the south, for the past 28 years.