In 2015, Rico was selected as a resident poet for the prestigious Pablo Neruda Foundation’s annual residency at La Sebastiana in Valparaíso. Their poetry is prose-driven, raw, and deeply influenced by punk and anticolonial perspectives, drawing directly from personal experience. Rico’s most significant work, Autonomous Sodomite Zone, was first published in Anus Magazine (NYC) in 2022.
They have also collaborated as a translator for artist and writer Iki Yos Piña, and currently write for and contribute to DIY trans publications in New York City.