My stories and poems have been published in Iron, Nu-City, Quarter After Eight, Weekly Alibi, Chiron Review, Happy, Gulf Coast, Oxford Magazine, New Orleans Review, Salt Hill, Ontario Review, New York Tyrant, and Denver Quarterly. I have an undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Texas at El Paso, and have studied creative writing with Gordon Lish in New York City and with Joy Harjo, Julie Shigekuni, and Greg Martin at the University of New Mexico. I make my living as a legal assistant.