She is a Salvadoran historian, poet, fiction writer and art curator based in Mexico City. Author of several multidisciplinary books of poetry, fiction and academic historical works. Graduated from the doctorate in history from El Colegio de Mexico, she is an Honorary Fellow in Writing by the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa.
She was invited as a writer-in-residence of the Fall Residency of the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa, in 2024. Her most recent books Kneeling before corn. Recuperating More-than-Human Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa (The University of Arizona Press, 2024) and [INCOGNITA FLORA CUSCATLANICA] (La Impresora, Puerto Rico, 2025) explore the relationship between more than human intimacies, grief, history and environmental memory. She has published three bilingual editions of narrative and poetry: Tal vez monstruos/Monsters Maybe (2022); Landsmoder (2022) and La familia o el olvido/Family or Oblivion (2017), her books have been published in the United States, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Italy, Guatemala and El Salvador. She has twice received the LLILAS Benson research grant from the Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, in 2023 and 2015. In 2009 she received the FONCA-AECID Artistic Residencies for Creators from Latin America Writing scholarship in Mexico. Combines literature, performance, memory and politics in the public space, and she actively advocates for the rights of women and girls in Central America.
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