• I grew up bored in a large backyard triple the size of my family's small South Texas home. The yard's bareness demanded an imagination and created the storyteller. I'm a writer because I'm afraid of the unresolved. I write to understand, to find conclusions, releasing them slowly into the quiet for you to hold. Sometimes I give away my secrets, and other times I guess yours. Either way, it's a drop of blood from me to you.

  • Education/Work

    I am a storyteller and teacher. I live just north of Austin, TX where I teach creative writing workshops through The Austin Public Library, as well as ELA to a group of neurodiverse high school students through Great Minds Learning Community, an alternative micro-school. I hold an MFA in Creative Nonfiction but dabble in a little bit of everything. I got my start at 16 volunteering with Sandra Cisneros' Macondo Foundation, where I was eventually offered a job. This opportunity drove me towards my graduate degree. I want to teach just as much as I want to write. It's a simultaneous love that complements and grows the other. I am working on a novel but I am also developing diverse lesson plans that include and incorporate the minds of adolescents, elders, and anyone in-between.

    Publications

    "You Know I Love You, Right?" Bending Genres 

     

    "Two Lone Voices" The Mcneese Review 

     

    "Hypnopompic: Proceeding Consciousness" Fish Barrell Review

     

    "The Pyramid of The Sun" Latinx Literary Audio Magazine

     

    "The Battle of The Frogs" Texas Public Radio

     

    "Adam Vines Fishes for Memories in Lures" Southern Review of Books

     

    "Stacy Abrams Exposes Flawed Democratic System" Southern Review of Books

     

    "Colin Dayan Revisits The Animals of Her Childhood" Southern Review of Books

     

    "McEllmury Finds Beauty in The Broken and Redefines The Self" Southern Review of Books

     

    "The Crucial Link Between Illiteracy and Segregation in San Antonio" The Motley Few

     

    "To My Friend Who Doesn't Feel Like Herself" Alamo City Moms

     

    "Students Cash Out With Bartending Jobs" The Pitt News

     

    "Students Talk Value of Unpaid Internships" The Pitt News

     

    "Maternity and Millenials" The Pitt News

     

     

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