Select Publications
Where my creative explorations found homes
• "The Obituaries Editor," in Into the Void Magazine.
• "Sinful Tango," in Fractured Lit.
• "Mother's Records, Mother's Books," in The Acentos Review.
• "Uprooted from Medellín," in Alebrijes Review.
• "Colorful," in Burningword Literary Journal.
• "Rain Date," in SUSAN / The Journal.
• "A Restless Elixir Pursuit," in JMWW Journal.
• "The Airplane Panic of 2011, and Other Palpitations," in Fahmidan Journal.
• "A Continued Evolution Rather than a Fossilized Past: Decolonizing Storytelling," in All My Relations, Volume 2.
• "The Post-Marbella Trauma," in in Novus Literary Arts Journal.
• "The Wind," in Rigorous Magazine.
• "Seeking Lost Tribes," in The Soul In Space.
• "A Settler Colonial Phlebotomy," in The Soul In Space.
• "To the Border Crossers: It's Time to Start Biting Their Tongues Instead of Ours," in PANK Magazine.
• “Surgically Enhanced Mannequins (1-13),” in Unmute Magazine.
• "Sleepwalking Through the 20th," in Havik 2021: Inside Brilliance.
• "An Ill-iterate Birth," in The Elevation Review, National Poetry Month Issue, 2022.
• "On the Limits of Goodwill, the Golden Rule, and Deontological Ethics: A Social Justice Activist's Reflections," in The Nasiona.
• "On Allyship," in The Nasiona.
• "Our Narratives Become Our Future: Designing a Story with the Traumatized at the Center," in The Nasiona.
• "The Right Wing May Have Lit the Fire, but the Left Wing May Dig the Grave," in The Nasiona.
• "On Faith and Other Demons: Why I Do Not Have (Nor Want to Have) Faith in Humanity," in The Nasiona.
• "Apart, but Together for Change," in The Nasiona.
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Creative Non-Fiction
The Wind
by Julián Esteban Torres López
Poem + Audio Story originally published in Rigorous, Volume 5, Issue 2. Later published in Julián's audio storytelling album Sfumato.
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Sleepwalking Through the 20th
by Julián Esteban Torres López
Audio Story originally published in Havik 2021: Inside Brilliance. Later published in Julián's audio storytelling album Sfumato.
*Finalist for Havik 2021: Inside Brilliance's Experimental Award*
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Surgically Enhanced Mannequins (1-13)
by Julián Esteban Torres López
Video originally published in Unmute Magazine's Winter 2/22/22 Edition. The audio track is included in Julián’s audio storytelling album Sfumato. Poetry is an excerpt from Julián's micro-poetry collection Ninety-Two Surgically Enhanced Mannequins.
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The Nasiona Editorials
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Julián Esteban Torres López (he/him/él) is a bilingual, Colombia-born storyteller, public scholar, and culture architect with Afro-Euro-Indigenous roots. Some of his other intersectional identities also inform his work, such as: atheist, multiply neurodivergent, formerly an undocumented immigrant, (non-visibly) disabled, chronic mental health conditions, Latine/o/x.
SERVICES
With over two decades’ experience in community development and advancing social justice on the ground and in academic, corporate, and nonprofit settings, Julián is available for consulting, public talks, keynotes, workshops, training, coaching, mentorship, and interviews.
SPECIAL PROJECTS
Julián is also available to partner with others to advocate for and center, elevate, and amplify the voices, experiences, and concerns of survivors of oppressive systems and dominant cultures.
