My work tackles immigration and border issues and has appeared in Callaloo, Creative Time Reports, ASIA: Magazine of Asian Literature, New York Times and elsewhere. A second edition of my novel, Black Wings (Veliz Books), was released in the US in 2019, and I had an exciting tour along the west coast and Texas. I also offer a multidisciplinary project, On Belonging, through which I explore my family’s roots and migration pattern while engaging with the community through site-specific art installations and workshops. In 2000, while living in Houston, I founded Voices Breaking Boundaries (VBB), an alternative arts organization that tackled social justice issues at a local and global level, that I directed for 16 years before moving to Los Angeles.

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A member of Macondo Writers Workshop and American Leadership Forum, I also co-hosted a weekly show at Houston’s Pacifica Radio Station KPFT 90.1 FM, where I interviewed Houston-based artists as well as international celebrities including Patti Smith.

Klieman’s students interviewed me as well as Voices Breaking Boundaries’ board, participating artists, and community members. Based on research material that Klieman’s students gathered, the University of Houston’s Friends of Women’s Studies acknowledged the impact of my work by creating permanent ongoing archives of my writings and VBB’s history in its Special Collections. The archives feature my artistic career and VBB’s extensive, multi-sensory history, and were made available to the public in fall 2016.