I teach at a Title I high school in Austin, Texas. I earned my PhD in Comparative Literature in 2015, with a dissertation on 20th-century African American and Cuban novels. You can read my essays at The Millions, Ploughshares.org, Sojourners, and Essay Daily, among other places.

Some of my favorite pieces:

George Orwell, Teju Cole, and My Students’ Stories (Essay Daily, July 2019)

Revolutionary Road and ‘Doing What You Love’ (Ploughshares.org, Oct. 2016)

Couples, Talking (About Sex) (Ploughshares.org, Aug. 2016)

Food in Cuba (and Paradiso at 50) (Ploughshares.org, July 2016)

In the Colectivo (Ploughshares.org, April 2016)

Ornette Coleman and the Color of Fort Worth (Ploughshares.org, Feb. 2016)

Sex, Barrenness, and the Desert (Sojourners, Sept. 2015)

Wendell Berry & Reclaiming Nature (Essay Daily, Aug. 2015)

The Manliness of Joan Didion (The Millions, July 2015)

Penelope Casas, 1943 – 2013 (Pterodáctilo, Aug. 2013)