Forthcoming: A Soft Atlas

A Soft Atlas is a zine and chapbook sequence that uses the book object itself as a site of meaning. Each publication maps emotional, cultural, and physical landscapes, as well as immigrant consciousness: air and bus routes of arrival, neighborhoods in transition, and imagined returns to one’s homeland. The tactile qualities of the zines—folds, textures, embedded maps, and photographic and visual motifs—function to guide readers through the shifting and unstable terrains of immigrant life. By merging form and content, the project demonstrates how place, movement, and memory can be embodied in the printed page, offering a multidimensional and inclusive narrative of Honduran-American life in South Florida.

View of dense green foliage with large leaves, sunlight filtering through, possibly taken in a greenhouse or jungle setting.

These texts often follow the small, everyday routes we take—through neighborhoods, memories, and the shifting idea of “belonging.” Instead of treating assimilation as a straight path, it acknowledges what many immigrants already know: that today, the old promise of fully belonging feels cracked, unfinished, or even impossible.

Black cat hiding in dense green bushes with small white flowers.

What we’re left with is something more tangled and alive—hybrid identities that sprout in unexpected places, like plants forcing their way through concrete.