I’m a writer and editor based in Mexico City. My journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Salon, and the Miami Herald.
I'm a Salvadoran-Cuban American graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and have won awards and fellowships from the Fulbright Association, Louisiana Press Association, and the Cintas Foundation. I taught writing and literature at the University of Iowa and am a co-founder of the Berlin Writers’ Workshop.
Nayib Bukele’s Content Machine Is Reshaping Latin America The New Yorker
A dispatch on Colombia’s presidential race and how the Salvadoran president became the region’s most popular leader.
The Truce Harper’s
The story of Raul Mijango, a former guerrilla commander who negotiated a successful truce on behalf of the Salvadoran government between the country’s two most powerful gangs, only to be arrested and sentenced to decades in prison.
The Shooting of David Ortiz Bleacher Report
A feature on the baseball legend’s shooting in the Dominican Republic and his relationship to the country amid a national tourism crisis.