
Set in one of Tucson’s first tamal and tortilla factories, The Molino is a hybrid memoir exploring one family’s loss of home, food, and faith. A young woman rejects the work in her father’s popular kitchen, but when the business must close, her world shifts and the family disbands. When she comes home, the factory’s scandalous mural provides a gateway into history and ruin, ancestry and sacrifice, industrial myth and artistic incarnation—revealing a sacred presence still alive in Tucson.
Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, "The Molino," 2005
Telling Tongues: A Latin Anthology on Language Experiences, “Duende Play” 2007
BorderLore Journal, “Artifact: El Molino”
BorderLore Journal, “Sun Sets on Beloved Benedictine Monastery” 2018
Pilgrimage Magazine: Flora, Fauna, Lore “A Tortilladora”
BorderLore Journal, “Artifact: Rebozo” 2020
BorderLore Journal, “Ramadas, Cunques & Coi: Dialects of the Southwest Borderlands” 2021
The Art of Food, Community Food Story: Women Working Millstone, 2022
The Art of Food, Community Food Story: Ichárhuta, 2022
BorderLore Journal, “The Blue Dress” 2022
America Eats! “Popovers” 2022