Medina was also an accomplished poet and writer of short stories, and his poetry has been published in various literary anthologies. In 1999, four of his poems ("Por Ti" - "For you"; "Altar De Luz" - "Altar of Light"; "Piel Hambrienta" - "Lonely Skin"; "Ladron De Paraiso" - "Thief of Paradise") were selected to be included in "Hagase La Poesia" (Let There Be Poetry), a literary collection of poems representing the past seventy years in modern Spanish language poetry. The collection was published in Argentina by El Editor Interamericano (The Interamerican Editor), and compiled by Argentine literary editor Oscar Abel Ligaluppi.