Jasmin Flores

Jasmin Flores recently graduated from The University of Texas at El Paso with a B.A. in Creative Writing. She is interested in pursuing a Ph.D. in English and looks forward to teaching a new generation of scholars to appreciate the literary form. Her first poem, The Odd Girl, was published in the Texas Collection of Young Poets in 2007. Since then, her essays, short stories, and poems have been published by various literary journals and magazines such as ForWord: A BorderSenses Literary Journal and Las Latinitas Magazine. Jasmin has interned with BorderSenses and volunteered with events such as Day of the Girl and Frida Fest held by Las Latinitas. She lives in El Paso, Texas with her mother and her best friend on four legs, her dog Scarlett.