Writer and actress whose work is featured in local DIY zines, scholar literary magazines, and university journals. She is a co-founder of New Carpa Theater Collective and has been acting for the past 6 years in New Carpa Theater productions and valley film projects. Flores reads almost monthly at different community spoke word events and was recently awarded a 2017 Swarthout Award in Writing for her border series poetry collection called “La Frontera.â€
Flores writes predominantly about her experience as a first-generation American, daughter of immigrants, and struggle as a person of color born into poverty in a Republican state. She writes with a hope to speak to the marginalized and hopes that others can gain understanding, empathy, and inspiration to action through her work.