Sediment/o

Sediment/o (Ediciones Liliputienses, 2024), winner of the I Premio Internacional de Poesía La Industrial, is a book of poetry that traces the Tijuana River as a shifting archive of migration, memory, and border history. Moving between poetry, family narrative, archival documents, Indigenous histories, and visual experimentation, the book follows the river across periods of drought, flood, settlement, displacement, and transformation.

The book understands sediment both materially and metaphorically: as what water carries and deposits, but also as the accumulated remains of histories, bodies, languages, infrastructures, and migrations. From Kumeyaay/Kumiai relationships to the watershed and the colonial transformation of the Californias to the development of Tijuana, Colonia Libertad, border enforcement, and the channelization of the river, Sediment/o considers the border as a landscape continually made and remade by movement.

At its center is the intermittent river: a river that disappears and returns, carrying traces of what came before. Through this rhythm, Sediment/o asks how landscapes remember, how migration resembles the movement of water, and what remains after histories of violence, displacement, and belonging have passed through a place.