Writing has become one of the spaces where I explore and make sense of my Mexican-American identity especially through multilingual poetry. Moving between English and Spanish allows me to capture emotions, memories, and cultural experiences that don’t always translate cleanly into just one language. Sometimes a word in Spanish carries a weight, a history, or a feeling that English can’t fully hold and I lean into that tension in my writing.
My creative work often centers themes of identity, belonging, religion, family expectations, and becoming especially as someone navigating multiple cultural and linguistic worlds. I’m drawn to poetry that feels personal but also reflective of broader experiences within immigrant and first-generation communities. At times, I also experiment with pairing my writing with visual or creative backgrounds to deepen the mood and storytelling.
While I’ve been a bit busy recently, I’m really interested in continuing to develop this work especially by getting more involved in multilingual literary spaces and publications like campus magazines. Below are a few pieces I’ve written, along with short reflections on each.
This piece explores the tension between my Catholic upbringing and my own questions about rebirth, identity, and becoming. While Catholicism presents life as singular and fixed: purgatorio, infierno, paraíso. I find myself imagining growth as something ongoing, even beyond one lifetime.
Through Mexican religious symbolism like the Virgen de Guadalupe, rosaries, and milagro hearts, I reflect the cultural weight of inherited faith, while the collage style mirrors my experience of living between languages and belief systems. Spanish carries the voice of tradition and authority, while English holds my questioning. Ultimately, this piece sits in that in-between space—where I am still learning how to define myself, slowly and on my own terms.
More to come soon 🙂
