When I Was Sixteen I Was in Love With Jesus

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By Itzel Basualdo

Itzel Basualdo is an interdisciplinary artist from Miami, Florida. Born in the U.S. to an Argentine father and Mexican mother, she often writes about the complexities and conundrums of existing between languages, accents, and cultures. Her work has appeared in The Acentos Review, Creative Nonfiction, Ginger Magazine, among others. She was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2019 and is a recipient of the 2020 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship Award. Itzel has forthcoming exhibitions at the Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum and NSU Museum of Art.