I was born on October 1 in Fajardo, Puerto Rico (proud libra!) and moved to Jacksonville, Florida at the very young age of 2. I have been writing since the second grade when my teachers lovingly called me “a writing machine.”

In the fourth grade, I took on an interest in writing poetry after my teacher noticed my talent and encouraged me to write about the things I cared about.

I then went on to an arts middle school and then an arts high school “majoring” – as we called it – in creative writing. I had an incredible poetry teacher who helped me grow a lot (are we seeing a pattern here when it comes to awesome teachers?) and I got a poem published in a literary magazine for the first time which you can read here.

I went to the New College of Florida (pre and then mid-DeSantis takeover) where I majored in Humanities. At the time, I was still considering myself mostly a poet because I feared that my fiction stories sucked. In my final semester of college, however, I got to take a creative writing class with a professor who really appreciated my talent and helped me to move past my insecurities. I got a flash fiction story published and have been in love with fiction since then.

I graduated from New College with my bachelors degree and moved to Eastern North Carolina to fulfill my two-year commitment with Teach For America. Since residing in North Carolina, I was accepted to Antioch University and have been serving as the editor-in-chief of Lunch Ticket since December 2025.