Writing
Ms. Bergenline
A coming-of-age eZine that follows a queer Dominican overachiever growing up in the housing projects of Union City, NJ.
A memoir wrapped in a digital scrapbook, Ms. Bergenline features poems, essays, fiction, photos, and illustrations cataloguing life as a teen in early 2000s New Jersey.
Additional Publications
Issue 01, Summer 2026
Strip Mall Magazine is a literary publication based out of the MFA program at California Institute of the Arts. Strip Mall Magazine publishes works that experiment with narrative and form, and fall between gaps in genre. Works that remind you that, even in the midst of ugliness, there are unseen possibilities–another street, another corner, another strip mall, in which you might find exactly what you’re looking for.
Issue 02, Fall 2024
Strip Mall Magazine is a literary publication based out of the MFA program at California Institute of the Arts. Strip Mall Magazine publishes works that experiment with narrative and form, and fall between gaps in genre. Works that remind you that, even in the midst of ugliness, there are unseen possibilities–another street, another corner, another strip mall, in which you might find exactly what you’re looking for.
We Don’t Talk About That
Rompiendo silencios en una cultura que “de eso no se habla,” thirty writers explore the silent, covert, and undefined experiences repeated generation after generation. This collection of creative non-fiction pieces breaks the silences that bind us and allows us to overcome trauma by discussing the inappropriate, embarrassing, or shameful topics in the Dominican household.
Essays on the Dominican Matriarch
12 contributing Dominican writers shared narratives of women in their families who have carried the weight of protecting, guiding, and educating in a society where men are dominant, and the home is ruled by the woman. They described the women who have fought and embraced the expectations of the matriarchal role and what they left behind.