Books
The story I stopped keeping short.
For most of my life, "I was born during the war" was the whole sentence. This book is what happened when I finally finished it.
Ana, Hija de la Guerra
Memorias de una infancia en conflicto.
A memoir of war, displacement, and the fierce, unglamorous love that carries a family through both. It's my story — and the story of the people around me who refused to be defined by what was taken from them.
Inside the book
Héroes anónimos
The book is built around the people history doesn't record. My father, Víctor, born in the hamlet of Los Horcones, who wanted to be a teacher so he could teach every farmer in his district to read. The neighbours who hid children. The mothers who made ordinary decisions under impossible conditions.
Each chapter opens with an ink portrait — faces rendered the way memory actually works, clear in some places and running at the edges in others.
Anonymous heroes are still heroes. Someone just has to write the names down.
Who it's for
If any of this sounds like you.
You left somewhere
And you've never quite settled the question of whether you're from where you were born or where you live now.
Your family doesn't talk about it
There's a period nobody describes in detail, and you've started to realise the silence is its own kind of story.
You want the human version
Not the geopolitics of Central America in the 1980s — the childhood inside it.
Book clubs, interviews, and events
I join book club calls when I can, and I'm available for interviews and readings. Just ask.