2025 Awards Eligibility Post

Hello there! It’s time for my awards eligibility post for the year! No new poems published this year, but I did have several new translations, a science fiction/horror story of my own, and a nonfiction essay come out. It has been a particularly difficult year for me, and seeing each of these pieces published gave me joy and brought smiles to my face.

Fiction & Translations

• “My Rainy Season Diary” by Antonio A. Huelgas (ORIGINAL TRANSLATION – 1,587 words; March 2025)
  Published by Merganser Magazine, this epistolary science fiction story is told through diary entries written by an unnamed child over the course of 24 days as their family tries to survive in their home as the waters rise and death floats ever closer. (The Spanish-language version of this story was published in Revista Mordedor #3 in 2021.)
  
• “Through the Crimson Forest” by David Mancera (ORIGINAL TRANSLATION – 4,702 words; March 2025)
  Published in the anthology Vivid Worlds from Slab Press, David’s story weaves science fiction, fantasy, and folklore together. In it, T’shamiie of the !Kung people travels with his tribe in southern Africa through through a fire-ravaged prairie, listening to stories from his elders and encountering otherworldly beings along the way. This is my third published translation project with David! (The Spanish-language version of this story appeared in the anthology Corrientes de Cambio in 2023.)
  
• “Shining Star”(ORIGINAL STORY – 996 words; September 2025)
  Published by Neon Dystopia, this sci-fi/horror story follows Belén, an aristocrat’s daughter, as she becomes a científica on the worldship El Caminante and learns the awful truth of what happens to orphans in the ship’s underbelly. This story is set in the same universe as my stories “San Cibernético” (which was my first published short story!) and “Second-Hand”.
  
• “The Arrendatario” by Susana Calvo (ORIGINAL TRANSLATION – 929 words; September 2025)
  Published in Salvage Magazine #15, this dystopian science fiction piece is about a working-class mother who rents out her body to the wealthy so that she can afford more time with her baby daughter, until a better solution presents itself. This is a story about maternal love, challenging the status quo, and seizing opportunities. The Spanish-language version of “The Arrendatario” even won the El Yunque de Hefesto prize for science fiction in 2023!
  

Nonfiction

• “HISTORY FILES: Preservation Guidance for Authors Planning to Donate Their Personal Papers to Archives” (ORIGINAL ESSAY; January 2025)
  Published by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA), I wrote this essay on behalf of the SFWA History Committee to help writers better preserve their authorial papers and writing-related ephemera (particularly if they plan to donate these documents and ephemera to an archive or museum at some point).