Claudia is a contributor to Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora. This book is an Undocupoets project to anthologize un/documented poets. Order online from HarperCollins.

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Poetry to Thank Scorpio Season on Nov. 13, 2025 at 7:30pm EST. Register through Google Forms.
In this 1 hr virtual workshop, we will read Scorpio poets and write from Scorpio’s lessons.


Honors
2023 Fairfax County Public Library Poetic Musings Contest Winner in ode category, “To Life with Foster Cats”
2021 Carolina Rojas-Bahr Outstanding Latina Graduate Award from the University of Maryland
Writer’s Relief Peter K. Hixson Memorial Award for Creative Writers
2019, Poetry Winner
Southwest Review Morton Marr Poetry Prize
2018, Second Place Award for “Throwing Rice”