See published and professional work that CM has worked on.
"Etched in Waiting: The Art of Holding On" is a deeply personal collection that explores the in-between spaces of loss and becoming. Through moments of grief, hope, and quiet transformation, it traces the journey toward motherhood—and the love that endures, even in waiting.
Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
"Whispers on the Wind" is a poetry chapbook reflecting on life as a queer, Caribbean living through grief, battling mental illness, and experiencing the beauty and destruction of love. This chapbook ranked #1 in Latin American/Caribbean Literature in 2021.
Purchase a copy on Amazon.
A poem published by Headline Poetry and Press. Whether it is of a miscarriage or abortion is up to the reader.
Read "Blighted" here.
A poem published by literary publication "I Want You To See This Before I Leave," features tortured love from a queer point of view.
Read "Carmilla" here.
CM's poem "Abyss" speaks on the hard fight with depression and is featured in Fourteen Poems first issue.
Purchase a copy here.
3 of CM's poems can be found in Brown Sugar Lit's edition, "Love is Love is Love".
Purchase a copy here.
Responsible for pre-during-post planning of White Party event for The Agnostic Man release.
Read about the event here.
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