writing

Poetry:

"De tanta hambre que pasamos nos comimos el miedo // From so much hunger we endured we ate our fear" / Brick Magazine (forthcoming Summer 2025)

“Poem to my mother and my pothos plant” / THIS Magazine (forthcoming Fall 2024)

“Año 57 de la Revolución” / "Poetry Pause" League of Canadian Poets, 2024 (previously published in The Malahat Review)

“The first” / CV2, 2024

“Did you forget anything?” / CV2, 2024

“I forgot to write a poem” / CV2, 2024

“I know I have a fickle heart and a bitterness and a wandering eye and a heaviness in my head” / Hooligan Mag (online), 2023

“This” / PRISM international, 2023 

“There are trees here” / The Humber Literary Review, 2023 

“My mother is a prose poem” / The Humber Literary Review, 2023 

“A dime of guts” / The Humber Literary Review, 2023

“Año 57 de la Revolución” / The Malahat Review, 2022 (Nominated by the editors for National Magazine Award consideration)

“To deracinate” / The Capilano Review web folio “ti-TCS | 19 on ritual,” 2021

“La libreta de abastecimiento” / The Capilano Review web folio “ti-TCR | 19 on ritual,” 2021

“El yuma moderno // The modern tourist” / Toronto Arts Report, 2018

“Of a man who fixes pools” / Petal Journal, 2015

“I swallow your heart” / The Undergraduate Review (Vol. 7, p. 62), 2015

“There’s a limit to your love” / The Undergraduate Review (Vol. 7, p. 40), 2015

“An afternoon in Central America” / Aspiring Canadian Poets Contest, 2012

Prose:

“The End of Something” / The Ex-Puritan Town Crier, 2018

“My Family Didn’t Leave Cuba To Watch Trudeau Praise Castro” / Huffington Post, 2016

“Melissa May Have Punched Me In The Face, But I Got Her Shoe” / Human Parts (on Medium), 2014

“The Month I Spent Living On A Mattress” / Huffington Post, 2014 / (also published in Medium, 2014)

Chapbooks & Anthologies:

Mentor Me: Instruction and Advice for Aspiring Writers by Heidi Stock / anthology, Aspiring Canadian Writers Contests Inc., 2017

I Swallow Your Heart / an illustrated chapbook of poems, artwork and design by Brienne Lim, self-published on Blurb.ca, 2015

Lake Effect 7 Anthology / an anthology by the creative writing students at Queen’s University in 2015, compiled and edited by Carolyn Smart, Upstart Press, 2015

Awards:

Longlist: CBC Poetry Prize, 2016

Shortlist: PEN Canada New Voices Award, 2016

Shortlist: The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Prize in Poetry, 2016

Winner: Aspiring Canadian Poets Contest, 2012

Winner: James H. Stitt Prize in Poetry, 2012