I am a Latinx writer and musician living in San Francisco, where I work as a private tutor. My writing has appeared in indie journals like A cappella Zoo, Inkwell, Red Light Lit, sPARKLE & bLINK, Entropy, Anti-Heroin Chic, and in readings across California. My short story “On Becoming” was a finalist in Omnidawn’s 2017 Fabulist Fiction Contest, and another story, “In Fresno, One Last Bath in Dust,” was included in the Baobab Press anthology This Side of the Divide: New Lore of the American West. I am the co-creator and producer of the fabulist sci-fi performance series and journal Club Chicxulub, and I recently released my first LP of Art Rock/-wave/Industrial bops, Postcards From Doomsday, and 3 other EPs under the moniker N!.
My art frequently explores mythmaking, love, the relationships between humanity and cosmic uncertainty, and the darkness of societies unraveling, often through fantastic, satirical, and psychedelic lenses with lyric flourish.
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MUSIC:
Postcards From Doomsday – LP (October 2021)
Ecophage – EP (April 2022)
Work Harder Work Better – EP (September 2022)
Different Feeling – EP (December 2022)
Emilie Simon: Désert (N! Remix) (March 2023)
Substacks From Hell: Remixes and B-Sides – compilation (April 2023)
Soma Pop – LP (October 2024)
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CLUB CHICXULUB PRODUCER:
Club Chicxulub: The Inaugural Show (November 2021)
Club Chicxulub II (March 2022)
Club Chicxulub III (September 2022)
Lit Crawl ’22 (October 2022)
Club Chicxulub V (April 2023)
Club Chicxulub Journal, Vol. 1: Summer (July 2023)
Lit Crawl ’23 (October 2023)
Club Chicxulub Journal, Vol. 2: Thaw (March 2024)
Club Chicxulub VII (September 2024)
Club Chicxulub Journal, Vol. 3: Harvest (Autumn 2024)
† denotes a dead, extinct, long gone journal
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FICTION:
“Won’t You Please?” – Whittier Review (2008)
“William the Unready” – A cappella Zoo † (2010)
“New Sensation” – Inkwell † (2010)
“Singularity” – Transfer Magazine (2011)
“To Kill a DJ” – sPARKLE & bLINK 90 (2017)
“On Becoming” – Entropy † (2017) – Finalist for Omnidawn’s 2017 Fabulist Fiction Prize
“In Spending Time (an excerpt from the novel Igniograph)” – sPARKLE & bLINK 98 (2019)
“Committee in Expiry” – Anti-Heroin Chic (2020)
“The Oracle on Holloway” – Tilted House (2021)
“Good Guy With Gun” – The Racket Journal: Issue Seventy Four & website feature (2023)
“In Fresno, One Last Bath in Dust” – Baobab Press, This Side of the Divide: New Lore of the American West (2023)
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NOVELS:
Descendants – unpublished (2014)
Igniograph – unpublished (2015)
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INTERVIEW:
Matt Carney on Reaching for the Handshake With the Void (2016) – Litseen
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POETRY:
“Venus,” “Life in Soliloquy or Divinity,” “In A Letter,” “Helen of Troy,” “The High Life of Low Life,” “33 Fleeting Moments,” “Saturn & Mars (On Departing)” – Writing Without Walls †: Magic (2013)
“Guessing About Jealousy” – Samizdat Literary Journal † (2014)
“The King Hopeful (As a Boy),” “Pornography (On an Anal Dilettante),” “Addiction,” “Catherine the Great” – Red Light Lit: Everyone I Love is Drunk (2014)
“In the Wasteland” – Enclave: Final Poems † (2017)
“Litmus” – Anti-Heroin Chic (2018)
“This Glass (On Alcohol, and The Handshake With The Void)” – The Racket Journal: Issue Fifteen (2020)
“Party’s Over” – Mobile Data Mag/Systemic Dreaming (2024)
“A Well of Mirrors” – Mobile Data Mag/Systemic Dreaming (2024)
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FEATURED READINGS:
MFA Mixer 2.0 – Cat Club (May 2013)
Voz Sin Tinta – Alley Cat Books (June 2013)
Velvet Revolution – San Francisco State University (September 2013)
MFA Mixer 2.0: We Are Not Little MFA Robots – Cat Club (May 2014)
Red Light Lit: Everyone I Love is Drunk – Clift Hotel (May 2015)
MFA Mixer 2.0: Despedida – Cat Club (July 2015)
Red Light Lit & jANK: Ho Ho Ho – Milk Bar (December 2016)
Voz Sin Tinta – Alley Cat Books (January 2017)
Be About It – Alley Cat Books (January 2017)
The Racket: DRUGZ – Adobe Books (April 2017)
Beast Crawl: Mixer 3.0 BARDO – Nomadic Press (September 2017)
Lit Crawl: The Racket: DISASTERS – Adobe Books (October 2017)
Quiet Lightning: sPARKLE & bLINK 90 – Peacock Lounge (November 2017)
Literary Speakeasy – Martuni’s (January 2018)
The Racket: OBSESSION – Adobe Books (April 2018)
Quiet Lightning: Turk & Divis – The Bindery (June 2018)
Red Light Lit – Piano Fight (October 2018)
Lit Crawl: Literary Speakeasy – Martuni’s (October 2018)
The Racket: SHAPE – Adobe Books (February 2019)
Quiet Lightning – Hotel Kabuki (March 2019)
Lit Crawl: The Racket: CATASTROPHE – Adobe Books (October 2019)
Lit Night – Ocean Ale House (December 2019)
The Racket: View From a Room – Remote (April 2020)
Lit Night – Remote (April 2020)
The Racket: Nightmares – Remote (October 2020)
The Racket: Whatever, it gets Better – Book launch for Whatever Love Means by Christine No – The Sycamore (October 2021)
Literary Death Match ep. 70 – Valencia Room (September 2022)
Literary Death Match ep. 72 – The Battery (April 2023)
The Racket: Underworld! – Guest Host – The Sycamore (October 2023)
The Racket: Be Our Guests – The Sycamore (January 2024)
Patron Saints of Influence: Inaugural Event – Shady Oak Barrel House (September 2024)