I'm a Seattle-based playwright, fiction writer and dramaturge born and raised in Argentina. I initially traveled to the U.S. on a Fulbright to pursue my graduate studies. I hold an MA in English and a PhD in Spanish, both from Rutgers University. My creative nonfiction and short stories have appeared in Into The Void, The Normal School, The Fabulist Words & Art and Hawaii Pacific Review. I received a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2018 and I'm an alumna of the 2020 Tin House Summer Workshop.
I'm currently in the market to sell my first English novel, If Only Love, and I'm working on a collection of nonfiction pieces on love and war for which I received a grant from Artist Trust.
I'm a member of Parley, a Seattle playwrights' group directed by Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth. Parley is my theater family and has helped me bring to life three of my plays. My first two full-lengths, About Marilyn and Iguazú, were workshopped at West of Lenin in 2017 and 2018. My third play, Two Big Black Bags, had a staged reading at the 2019 Multicultural Playwrights Festival REPRESENT! and a three-night workshop production run at ACT Theatre on August 9-11. My last full length, Cornelia's Visitors, was livestreamed in the summer of 2020 to audiences across the country. My short "The Cuckoo Clock" was presented at Penguin Production's "Finding Trails" Play Festival in the fall.
My other theatre family is eSe Teatro, Seattle Latinxs Take Stage, where I'm a resident dramaturge and playwright. Outside of these organizations, my short plays have been presented in stages in Seattle (As If Theatre) and Arizona (Female Playwrights Onstage).
My dramaturgical projects include Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House (As If Theatre), Antonio Larreta’s Juan Palmieri (Thriving Artists / ACTLab), César de María’s Journey of The Saint (eSe Teatro / ACTLab) and Steven Dietz's Dracula (ACT Theatre). I'm a member of the Dramatists Guild and of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.
I'm the author of the book Islas imaginadas. La guerra de Malvinas en la literatura y el cine argentinos (Imaginary Islands: The Malvinas/Falklands War in Argentine Literature and Film, 2012) and the protagonist and co-scriptwriter of the 2012 award winning documentary film La forma exacta de las islas (The Exact Shape of the Islands). My articles on literature and culture have appeared in books (Greenwood, Salem, University of Pittsburgh Press), as well as in academic journals (Hispamérica, Kamchatka, Intertexts).
My teaching career spans two decades. I taught at Rutgers while I was completing my graduate work, and held professorships at Oregon State University and the National University of Rosario in Argentina. For a few years, I ran my own language school in Kitsap County, where I served students of all ages and abilities. I also worked at West Sound Academy, a preparatory school in the Seattle area, where I helped establish the Spanish International Baccalaureate program and restructure the language curriculum. While at WSA, I taught Documentary Film and Journalism, and coordinated the Creative, Active and Service components of the IB program.
As a freelance writer, I've produced articles on literature and language for companies such as ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, eNotes and FluentU. I've worked as a translator within academia and the film industry, and have years of experience in administration for nonprofits.
I live outside of Seattle with my husband, our three boys, and a sweet Rhodesian Ridgeback named Daisy.
Thank you for visiting!
I'm currently in the market to sell my first English novel, If Only Love, and I'm working on a collection of nonfiction pieces on love and war for which I received a grant from Artist Trust.
I'm a member of Parley, a Seattle playwrights' group directed by Rebecca Tourino Collinsworth. Parley is my theater family and has helped me bring to life three of my plays. My first two full-lengths, About Marilyn and Iguazú, were workshopped at West of Lenin in 2017 and 2018. My third play, Two Big Black Bags, had a staged reading at the 2019 Multicultural Playwrights Festival REPRESENT! and a three-night workshop production run at ACT Theatre on August 9-11. My last full length, Cornelia's Visitors, was livestreamed in the summer of 2020 to audiences across the country. My short "The Cuckoo Clock" was presented at Penguin Production's "Finding Trails" Play Festival in the fall.
My other theatre family is eSe Teatro, Seattle Latinxs Take Stage, where I'm a resident dramaturge and playwright. Outside of these organizations, my short plays have been presented in stages in Seattle (As If Theatre) and Arizona (Female Playwrights Onstage).
My dramaturgical projects include Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House (As If Theatre), Antonio Larreta’s Juan Palmieri (Thriving Artists / ACTLab), César de María’s Journey of The Saint (eSe Teatro / ACTLab) and Steven Dietz's Dracula (ACT Theatre). I'm a member of the Dramatists Guild and of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas.
I'm the author of the book Islas imaginadas. La guerra de Malvinas en la literatura y el cine argentinos (Imaginary Islands: The Malvinas/Falklands War in Argentine Literature and Film, 2012) and the protagonist and co-scriptwriter of the 2012 award winning documentary film La forma exacta de las islas (The Exact Shape of the Islands). My articles on literature and culture have appeared in books (Greenwood, Salem, University of Pittsburgh Press), as well as in academic journals (Hispamérica, Kamchatka, Intertexts).
My teaching career spans two decades. I taught at Rutgers while I was completing my graduate work, and held professorships at Oregon State University and the National University of Rosario in Argentina. For a few years, I ran my own language school in Kitsap County, where I served students of all ages and abilities. I also worked at West Sound Academy, a preparatory school in the Seattle area, where I helped establish the Spanish International Baccalaureate program and restructure the language curriculum. While at WSA, I taught Documentary Film and Journalism, and coordinated the Creative, Active and Service components of the IB program.
As a freelance writer, I've produced articles on literature and language for companies such as ABC-CLIO/Greenwood, eNotes and FluentU. I've worked as a translator within academia and the film industry, and have years of experience in administration for nonprofits.
I live outside of Seattle with my husband, our three boys, and a sweet Rhodesian Ridgeback named Daisy.
Thank you for visiting!