In 2007, she published a new book of short stories, Ojos de Luna (Moon Eyes), in which she explores the ways in which eviction, solidarity, and spiritual barriers marginalize people.

[2] In 2011, Salón Literario Libroamérica de Puerto Rico selected Arroyo Pizarro's new book, Caparazones, as the best new novel and the same year she was awarded a writer-in-residency grant by the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Arroyo Pizarro's body of work consists of two novels, three collections of poetry, nine short-story books, and contributions to more than two dozen anthologies,[1] among them New Daughters of Africa, edited by Margaret Busby (2019).

[1] Arroyo Pizarro frequently writes about LGBT issues in her work and has participated with other writers and activists in the LGBTTIQ and African-descent communities in conferences and symposia held in Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain, and Venezuela.

[4] When the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled that the island's marriage ban was unconstitutional,[5] Arroyo Pizarro and Oliveras Vega became the first same-sex couple to marry in Puerto Rico.