I attended the University of Houston where I discovered how much I loved to write. After graduating Summa Cum Laude from UH with a degree in English, I then enrolled and was accepted by Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont where I received an MFA in Creative Writing and Literature. Writers like Amy Hempel, Rick Moody, and Jill McCorkle were strong influences on my work and I published my first story in the Carolina Quarterly while attending Bennington.
I have published stories in more than some well-known literary magazines. A year after the CQ publication, I won the Tobias Wolff Fiction Contest for a story entitled “In Her Shoes I Would.†That piece was published in the Bellingham Review