Creative nonfiction & collective memory
Creative nonfiction & collective memory
My work in creative nonfiction centers on memory, storytelling, and collective meaning-making. I am interested in the creative and dynamic reappropriation of the past. For this, I explore how personal and communal narratives—especially those from underrepresented voices—can challenge dominant discourses and open space for alternative histories. Through essays, chronicles, and collaborative workshops, I work with archives as both method and material, weaving together ethnographic and literary methods. I understand the archive not only as a repository of the past, but as a relational practice. This approach is deeply informed by feminist and participatory methodologies.
I design and facilitate creative writing workshops that explore memory, territory, and personal storytelling as tools for reflection and transformation.
Books
Aquí no hay espacio para ti: reapropiaciones narrativas desde la autobiografía, el archivo y el territorio. Funding: Recipient of the Sistema de Apoyos a la Creación y Proyectos Culturales, Mexico, 2024-2025.
Conferences & invited presentations
“The legend of origin: written and spoken word”. Panel: Indigenous history and culture: Pre-columbian to modern, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), Oaxaca, Mexico, 2019.
“They conquered us but didn’t erase us: the legend of origin between archives and memory in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca”. Panel: History and Anthropology. Colloquium Interdisciplinary Studies on Oaxaca. Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM), and Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Oaxaca, Mexico, 2017.
“Weaving pasts, weaving futures”. Panel: Indigenous futures. Symposium: Utopia at the border: Imaginaries of the future, a Leverhulme international research network. Regensburg University, Germany, 2016.
“Promoting the community: tourism and the state in a Southern Mexican Village.” Panel: Making ethnography matter? Politics, ethics, and epistemology in fieldwork. Colloquium: “Ethnography and beyond. Graduate Colloquium in Anthropology”, Catholic University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2016.