About Me

I’m Yanitsa — a first-generation Nicaraguan American writer, storyteller, and a lover & tender of the natural world, with Native roots in the Texas–Mexico borderlands.

My writing explores identity, belonging, land, food, and the stories that connect us to place. I’m drawn to narratives that make space for underrepresented voices and challenge the ways we understand our relationships with land, culture, and one another.

Somewhere between research, storytelling, and wandering, you’ll usually find me.