Readings

With over a decade of experience in literary performance, I’ve had the joy of sharing my work at venues ranging from the Hotel Café in Los Angeles to Furst Wurld in Joshua Tree, as well as festivals like Lit Crawl in San Francisco and Beast Crawl in Oakland. My performances have also found a home at The Sorrento Hotel in Seattle and at TreeGarden in Austin during Foglifter’s Home Is Where You Queer Your Heart tour. Scroll down to see where I’ll be performing next, or bring a reading or workshop to your next community literary event.

Upcoming

Join me for the release of my debut poetry collection, The Body Can Tolerate from Red Light Lit Press on Tuesday, Sept. 23 at 29th Street Ballroom, Austin, TX 7-9PM. Buy the book in person, or here!

Celebrate Hispanic Heritage month with poetry and burlesque on Sunday September 28th at Crazy Conchaz, Austin TX, from 11am-1pm. Tickets available here!

Recent Highlights

Red Light Lit Austin at the Ballroom 10/29/24

Red Light Lit at Light Rail Station

Bay Area Generations

Performance History

  • Red Light Lit Austin and Cristal Experience: Creative Devotion. Propaganda HQ. Austin, TX. (2025, August 21.)
  • Dejar Juella Juntos, Los Artículos Hispanic Heritage Month event. Motion Media Arts Center. Austin, TX. (2024, September 13). 
  • Red Light Lit Press Book Launch: Lions Like Us by Hollie Hardy. Room 13. Chicago, IL. (2024, September 7).
  • Red Light Lit Press Book Launch: Lions Like Us by Hollie Hardy. Aendre Art House. Ferryville, WI. (2024, September 6).
  • Sonoma Community Writers Festival: The Poetics of Seduction-Love, Power, and the Erotic Imagination. Sonoma State University. Sonoma, CA. (2024, April 4.)
  • Revoluntionístas, The ‘Art of Pleasure’ project, partly supported by the City of Austin, a one-night art exhibition, inspired by adrienne maree brown’s ‘Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good. (2024, February 24).
  • Mary Simich Residency. Make-Out Room. San Francisco, CA. (2023, December 17).
  • Riches Art Gallery, Bodies of Work III Closing Reception. Austin, TX. (2023, August 4).
  • Native Hostel partnering with SAFE Austin, From the Heart Art Gallery Closing Reception. Austin, TX. (2023, February 25).
  • Originator Studios for Big Medium E.A.S.T. Pathways: A Free Immersive Art Experience Exploring What It Means For Artists To Commit To Change, Healing Thoughts, The Intense Practice of Healing Neural Connections, and Forging New Pathways. (2022, November 11).
  • Nomadic Press Book Release, The New Low by Jennifer Lewis. Make Out Room. San Francisco, CA. (2022, October 15).
  • ArtUs Co. Gallery. Austin, TX. (2022, July 23.)
  • Something Cool Studies, Bodies of Work II Activation. Austin, TX. (2022, July 2.)
  • The Hotel Cafe. Los Angeles, CA. (2022, June 23). 
  • FurstWurld. Joshua Tree, CA. (2022, June 24.)
  • Happy Endings Reading Series. Make Out Room. San Francisco, CA. (2022, June 14). 
  • World AIDS Day with UT Austin Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and Karma R. Chávez. TreeGarden, Austin, TX. (2021, December 1). 
  • Boots on the Ground: a Reading Benefitting Abortion Fund Mutual Aid. Green Apple Books, San Francisco, CA. (2021, September 10).
  • Queer Home CookOUT Tour with Foglifter Press. TreeGarden, Austin, TX and Axelrad, Houston, TX. (2021, July 19th-20th).
  • Red Light Lit Press Book Release, Unearth the Flowers by Thea Matthews. My Buddy’s. Chicago, IL. (2021, June 17).
  • Red Light Lit Live at The Complex. Complex Recording Studio. San Francisco, CA. Streamed on Twitch. (2021, May 7).
  • Red Light Lit Live at The Complex. Complex Recording Studio. San Francisco, CA. Streamed on Twitch. (2021, February 26).
  • The Phoenix Hotel. San Francisco, CA. (2021, February 21).
  • Light Rail Station. San Francisco, CA. Live Streamed. (2020, June 24).