She has published articles on Caribbean narrative and poetry in Confluence, Latin American Literary Review, and Meridional among others and has collaborated in the volume Cantos y poemas: antología crítica de autoras afro-descendientes de América Latina (ed. M. M. Jaramillo and B. Osorio.) She has been awarded The Harold Eugene Davis Prize by the Middle Atlantic Council of Latin American Studies (MACLAS) for the best article published in 2016 and a Wadysaw Maryan Froelich Research Grant, also from MACLAS, in support of her research project “Chasing Freedom: Black Criminalization, Leadership, and Writing in Colombia, Brazil, and Cuba.” She is currently working on a book-length project entitled Herederos de la libertad: criminalización, heroicidad y escritura de afro-descendientes en Colombia, Brasil y Cuba.