I am interested in different forms of what we call writing. My book Something More Splendid Than Two began as part of the academic writing I did to complete my PhD. I was not attempting to write a book at the time, but the book became possible because of the inspiration I felt working with my students while finishing my dissertation. I was uniquely situated working at a community college because my job did not depend on my completing the PhD. That freedom shifted the audience of my writing drastically in that I stopped writing for traditional academic audiences at research universities and began writing for my students. Something More Splendid Than Two weaves together autobiography, poetry, myth, and research, an experiment that attempts to heal my relationship to writing and the histories I come from. It is indebted to my students who imagined new ways to read and write with me. 

My current project centers around my relationship to social dance. As a Salsa and Bachata social dancer of twelve years, I am interested in what Afro-Latinx social dances can teach us about writing, and what pedagogies might be borne out of studying these collective movement practices. I have always had trouble with the way writing and reading are often taught as disembodied and isolated acts in institutional settings. Through interdisciplinary mediums traversing photography, dance, writing, and film, I am dreaming up counternarratives that might shore up new practices for art making and storytelling.