Gonzalez authored the poetry collections, Toys Made of Rock (Bilingual Review Press, 2015),[1] and When Love Was Reels (Arte Public Press, 2017),[2] and with John S. Christie, served as Co-Editor of Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature.

A photograph of him as a child in El Salvador and lines from his poetry are featured in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History.

[4] He has appeared as a guest poet on Univision and American Latino TV and has been a contributor to Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education and National Public Radio (NPR).

[7] A recording of him reading his poetry is archived in the Library of Congress Palabra Archive that also features such authors as Gabriel García Márquez, Gabriela Mistral, Pablo Neruda,and Jorge Luis Borges.

He is a professor of English at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut.