• Creative writing
• Latino/a fiction
• Protest literature
• Magic realism

Novels:

• Bodega Dreams, Vintage, New York, 2000

• Bodega Dreams, Serpentʼs Tail, UK Edition, 2000

• El Vendedor de Sueños, Alfaguara, Spanish Edition, 2001

• Il Ètait Une Fois Bodega, Seuil, French Edition, 2002

• A Salsa Hercege, Ulpius Haz, Hungarian Edition, 2003

• Changoʼs Fire, Harper Collins, New York, 2004

• El Fuego de Chango, HarperCollins, Spanish Edition, New York, 2004

Stories and Articles:

• “The End of Something” in The Chelsea Literary Exchange, Fall, 1994

• “A Diamond as Big as the Palladium” in Bomb Magazine, Summer, 1999

• “Spanish for Frog” in Hispanic Magazine, March 2000

• “Botanica Tales” in POZ Magazine, August 2000

• “Women Iʼve Know” in Latina Magazine, July 2001

• “Graffiti Monk” in Lit Rifts Anthology, Simon and Schuster, Fall 2004

• “El Niño Blanco” in Se Habla Español Anthologia, Alfaguara, 2000

• “The White Baby” in The Sunday New York Times, June 4, 2000

• “Dog Days” in The New York Times Magazine, November 26, 2000

• “Do Latinos Have a Representative?” in El Pais (Spain), November 7, 2002

• “Counting the Ways” in The New York Times Magazine, November 11, 2002

• “Y Tu Black Mama Tambien” in Newsweek.com, June 2003

• “Hey Baby” in Newsweek.com, August 2003

• “The Fires Last Time” in The New York Times, December 16, 2005

• “The White Baby” reprint in New York Stories Anthology, NYU Press, 2005

• “Bodega Dreaming” in Latina Magazine, May 2006

Screenplays

• “Bodega Dreams” Optioned by Fox Searchlights 2000; Four Corners Films, 2003,

• 2004; Broken Rose Productions 2006

• “Dog Days” Optioned by Kennedy/Marshall 2001, Universal 2002

• Course Leader, English 281, Spring 2007

• Arthur Lynn Andrews Fiction Prize, Judge, 2006, 2007

• Undergraduate Admissions Committee

• MFA Admissions Committee

• Judge, POZ Magazine, Fiction Contest, 2001, 2005

• Judge, Constance Saltonstall Foundation Residency Grants, 2005