Curriculum Vitae

Experience 

• Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, CUNY [New York, New York]
  Aug 2021 - Present | Associate Director of Arts and Culture

• Universidad del Sagrado Corazón [San Juan, Puerto Rico]
  Feb 2021 - December 2021 | Adjunct Professor

• Teatro SEA/Society of the Educational Arts [New York, New York]
  Nov 2019 - August 2021 | Managing Director 

• Lehman College, CUNY [New York, New York]
  Aug 2019 - December 2019 | Adjunct Professor 

• New York University [New York, New York]
  Aug 2017 - May 2020 | Adjunct Professor 

• The King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center [New York, New York]
  Aug 2018 - December 2019 | Outreach Specialist and Graphic Designer

• Temporales Magazine [New York, New York]
  Aug 2017 - May 2019 | Graphic Designer, Consultant 

• Red Sugarcane Press [New York, New York] 
  Apr 2018 - Apr 2019 | Project Consultant

• El Nuevo Día [San Juan, Puerto Rico]
  Jul 2016 - December 2017 | Columnist

• Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) [New York, New York]
  Feb 2019 - December 2020 | Transcriber 

• Institute of Puerto Rican Culture [San Juan, Puerto Rico]
  Oct 2013 - Jul 2017 | Publishing Director 
  Oct 2015 - Jul 2017 | Director, Visual Arts Program 
  Oct 2013 - Jul 2017 | Union Negotiator

• Erizo Editorial [San Juan, Puerto Rico
  Jan 2010 - Oct 2013 | Founder and Director

• Center for Academic Excellence [San Juan, Puerto Rico]
  Aug 2011 - July 2012 | Faculty Development Coordinator 

Education 

• New York University (NYU) 
  Aug 2017 - May 2019 | Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. 

• University of Puerto Rico (UPR) 
  Aug 2013 - Dec 2013 | Master courses in Cultural Affairs and Administration
  Aug 1999 - May 2003 | Bachelors in Comparative Literature 
  Aug 1997 - May 1999 | Courses in Architecture 

• Ponce School of Fine Arts 
  1992 - 1997 - Fine Arts and Theater Set Design student 

Continued Education & Certifications

• 2020 - Adult Mental Health First Aid Certification

• 2019 - Simposyum: Critical University/Critical Dissidence: Pedagogies on Art and Violence in the Americas
  New York University, NY

• 2018 - Symposium: Regímenes de alteración: Literatura, droga y gobierno de vida
  New York University, NY

• 2017 - Simposio: Slave Pasts in the Present: Narrating Slavery through the Arts, Technology, and Tourism
  New York University, NY

• 2017 - Education methodologies
  New York University, NY

• 2008 - The Importance of Museums to the Economic Development
  American Association of Museums, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras

• 2005 - Art Critic Symposium
  Centro de Adiestramiento Profesional, Universidad del Sagrado Corazón-Museo de Arte de Ponce

Publications 

• 2020 - Cartografía del polvo. Poetry book. Riel Editores. Second Edition

• 2020 - Cartografía del polvo. Poetry book. Riel Editores. 

• 2019 - Atemporales: 2019 Anthology. Hispanic American Anthology of the MFA in Creative Writing in Spanish at NYU Graduating Class of 2019. 

• 2019 - Zona de carga/Loading Zone No. 10. Selection of several poems from the unpublished book Cartografía del polvo 

• 2018 - Multilingual Anthology. Anthology of The Americas Poetry Festival of New York, 2018

• 2018 - Amapola: Veinti Racconti dal Mondo Ispanico. One short story included in this anthology

• 2018 - Ante el Espejo de la Muerte. Essay

• 2016 - Canto a la Ceniza. Poetry book. Winner of the END poetry competition, 2015

• 2015 - El canon abierto. Última poesía en español (1970-1985). Poetry

• 2015 - Hispamérica: revista de literatura. Poem selection and essay about my recent work by Dr. Juan Pablo Rivera

• 2014 - Hemisferio de la Sombra. Poetry book. National Poetry Prize, 2012 

• 2014 - Los Prosaicos Dioses de Hoy. La secta de los perros. Anthology

• 2013 - Ó: Antología del Colectivo Literario Homoerótica. Anthology

• 2013 - Antología del Mar. Poetry anthology. Casa de los Poetas

• 2011 - El Tiempo de los Escarabajos. Poetry. Erizo Editorial

• 2009 - Anzuelos y Carnadas. Poetry book written with Xavier Valcárcel

• 2008 - Los Rostros de la Hidra. Anthology of the Puerto Rican new voices in poetry. Isla Negra Editores

• 2007 - Los Otros Cuerpos. First LGBT anthology of the Caribbean. Tiempo Nuevo Editores

Extracurricular Activities 

• 2018 - Invited writer at The Americas Poetry Festival of New York

• 2017 - Invited as visiting writer at the Caracas International Book Fair in Caracas, Venezuela

• 2016 - Invited as visiting writer at the 2016 Leer es Volar in Bogotá, Colombia

• 2016 - Invited as visiting writer at the International Book Festival in Habana, Cuba

• 2012 - 2014 - Co-founder and member of Aequitas Men Chorus (soundcloud.com/aequitaspr)

• 2009 - 2012 Founder and member of Homoerotica writers group 

• 1997 - 2013 Member of the University of Puerto Rico Concert Chorus 

• 1997 - 1998 Collective Art Exhibition at the Ponce City Hall of Puerto Rico

Awards & Nominations 

• 2024 - Letras Boricuas Fellowship

• 2022 - NY Emmy Winner for Short Film Documentary about Nuyorican Poetry

• 2021 - National Association of Latino Artists (NALAC) Fellowship

• 2015 - First Place by the El Nuevo Día Poetry Competition 

• 2013 - First Place by the Casa de los Poetas International Competition 

• 2012 - The National Poetry Award by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture for Hemisferio de la sombra 

• 2012 - Received the New Voices Award for emergent author by the Puerto Rico Festival de la Palabra

• 1997 - Robert C. Byrd Scholarship for Academic Leadership