I grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I was an accident-prone dirt biker, a so-so martial artist, and a slow distance runner with a high pain threshold. After high school I left for the wetlands of Connecticut to attend Wesleyan University, where I studied and ran. Badly. Later, I kicked around in New York and D.C. and South America, working mainly as an editor and free-lance writer. No odd jobs scraping gum from sidewalks, digging bird guano, or cage fighting, I’m afraid (though I have done some auto repossession). I picked up an MFA at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and an MA at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. There, I increased my pain threshold by virtue of exposure to the searing sun and the habañero chile pepper. I framed my diplomas and moved to Austin the year my first novel, Leaving Disneyland, was published by Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press after winning the 2001 A.W.P. Series Award for the Novel. My second novel, In the Shadows of the Sun, was published by Nan A. Talese Books and was chosen a 2005 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection. I now teach fiction writing at the University of Houston as an assistant professor in both the undergraduate and graduate writing programs in the Creative Writing Program.

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