My first novel, Pumpkin seeds, was published by Fondo Blanco. My second book, No existe dique capaz de contener al óceano furioso. Potencia, alegría y anarquismo, is being published.
As a musician I have toured playing drums and percussion in ambient, minimalist, punk, and improvised music projects in numerous cities across Mexico and the United States. I have published in Letras Libres, Terremoto, Tierra Adentro, Grafografxs, and Revista Común, among other publications. I did translation and editing for Tumbalacasa. I have experience teaching fiction, writing, critical theory, deep listening and musical improvisation in well known community and art spaces in Mexico, and have covered these themes through the production of multiple radio shows, workshops and podcasts.

Es licenciada en Letras Modernas. Tiene posgrados de literatura en la UAM y la UNAM, donde estudió literatura anarquista y ciencia ficción. Ha publicado en Letras Libres, Terremoto, Tierra Adentro, Grafografxs, Revista Común, entre otras. Su primera novela, Pepitas de calabaza, salió en la editorial Fondo Blanco y está por salir su segundo libro, No existe dique capaz de contener al océano furioso. Potencia, alegría y anarquismo. Ha facilitado círculos de lectura, derivas, escucha profunda e improvisación en espacios comunitarios y de arte. Hace programas de radio y talleres de música, ficción y teoría crítica. Este año se ganó el premio Moving Narratives de Prince Claus y British Council para artistas de media carrera con impacto en lo social. Junto a Stefan Christoff se ganó la beca Research and Creation de la Canada Council of Arts el año pasado.

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Her main topic is how art can make us desire and shape a radical future

Su preocupación principal gira en torno a la manera en que el arte nos podría hacer desear y modelar un futuro radicalmente distinto

Hace poco fui a dar un taller de escritura creativa a Teorética en Costa Rica, donde además presentamos Militancia alegre y mi novela, Pepitas de Calabaza, con Jochi y Paula Piedra.

Recently I went to Costa Rica to give a workshop on creative writing in Teorética. We launch Militancia alegre and my novel, Pepitas de calabaza, with Jochi and Paula Piedra

2022. Mackenzies Wark Reverse Cowgirl interpretation. Performatic solo reading with snare, bells, cymbals and recorded voices and soundscapes. General Expenses Galery, Mexico City.

2022. Interpretación de Vaquera Invertida de Mackenzie Wark, pieza sonora, radial, de improvisación con tarola, platillos, percusión. Performance en vivo con fichas bibliográficas con diseños de Maggie Petronni con fragmentos del libro. Pieza comisionada por la editorial argentina Caja Negra.

With excerpts and sounds that I create from the book in the same kind of performance, I did a commissioned experimental radio drama, titled Sopita Amarilla, a sound dramaturgy utopia about corn where I mixed fiction, ecopoetics, storytelling with radio and sound art, for the Peruvian contemporary artist Ximena Garrido Lecca for her exhibition Inflorescence in Portikus gallery in Frankfurt. It is a joyful story, a dream about a seed that can make us free.

- 2021. Noche Brillosa. Poetry improvisation mixed with music for the Chilean sound art festival Tsonami.

- 2021. Pasado Indigerible. Poetry improvisation mixed with music for the Mexican sound art festival Umbral.

I played the drums and compose with the hardcore punk band Cadenaxo from 2014 to 2023.

2016. Cadenaxo Belleza Mexicana USA Tour. Played in more than 30 cities.

DISCOGRAPHY:

- 2020. Lenguas Podridas. Cadenaxo (11pm, USA)
- 2016. Belleza Mexicana. Cadenaxo (Verdugo Discos, USA; Discos Enfermos, Spain)

I recorded the bees of a beekeeping Mayan land defenders group (Muuch Xíimbal). Stefan Christoff recorded the voice of a Wetʼsuwetʼen land defender and we both played drums and piano to both the soundscape and the interviews in a record that its been mixed by Pierre Guerineau

In collaboration with radio artist and piano player Stefan Christoff, in 2023 we won the Research and Creation Grant of the Canada Council of Arts.

Sound and Writing. South to south artist meeting. Carcdam, Casablanca, Morocco.