My Story

I've been writing poems since I was about eight years old, growing up in Puerto Rico. I started writing stories at age ten. I wrote my first play in high school. I studied playwriting while an undergraduate at Yale, all the while continuing my poetry and story writing.

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After college, I focused on a career in nonprofit work, first teaching Head Start for 2 years, then working for an environmental education youth organization, moving on to starting an after school and summer program for a local organization, eventually also starting up a family economic success program. I then went to graduate school at Columbia for my Masters in Social Work, which landed me in my current position, working in health justice.

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I love my day job, but as life experiences have stacked up, I have wanted to return to my writing practice for some time.  Now in my 40's, I'm working to rekindle the flame and get back into it.