ABOUT …

As a little girl I obsessively read every biography in the school library. Who knew I was actually preparing for my future career? I am currently writing The Woman Who Fell to Earth: An Imagined Life of Ana Mendieta, a biographical novel interweaving the real-life story of the ’80s earth-body artist Ana Mendieta and her exile from Cuba, my own Puerto Rican diaspora, and Western humankind’s larger, tragic diaspora from the earth, our original mother.

As a Senior Producer-Writer for the Emmy-nominated TV series E! True Hollywood Stories, I’ve transformed the lives of such stars as John Lennon, Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Richard Pryor, Marilyn Monroe, and Jane Fonda into compelling prime-time entertainment. And my critically acclaimed first book, Kovacsland: A Biography of Ernie Kovacs (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), was called a “delightfully well done life of American TV’s wackiest, most original and bizarre comic genius” by Kirkus Reviews.

A seasoned publishing professional, I edit books (memoir and biography — of course! — but also art/art history, fiction/poetry, spirituality, and Latinx/Mexico/border subjects) for New World Library, University of Arizona Press, Sounds True, Trilce Ediciones, Girl Friday Productions, and independent authors. I also translate art history content into Spanish for the Harwood Museum of Art.

A longtime arts journalist, I’ve written for ARTnews, Elle, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, O: The Oprah Magazine, and many other periodicals. On staff I’ve been Senior Producer-Writer for E! Entertainment Television, Editor in Chief of International Documentary Magazine, Art + Architecture Writer for the LA Daily News, and Associate Editor of Emmy: The Magazine of the Television Arts & Sciences.

My work has been honored with fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, the Entertainment Industries Council, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the Harwood Museum of Art, and other organizations.

A Puerto Rican raised in SoCal (does that make me a Califorícan?), I left LA in 2006, lived in Guatemala, and now commune with coyotes, ravens, hummingbirds, and my four-legged familiars on the ancestral lands of the northern Tiwa people, known today as Taos, New Mexico.