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Being from New Mexico can raise some interesting questions, like, "How do you spell that?" (Answer: A-L-B-U-Q-U-E-R-Q-U-E),
"Where did you learn to speak English so well? (Answer: New Mexico was inducted as the 47th state in the union on
January 6, 1912. English is kind of mandatory), and the occasional "Is this your first time to America?" (Answer: blank
stare, which usually results in the question being shouted at me, because shouting? Is the universal translator).
A fourth-generation New Mexican, I grew up in Ruidoso, New Mexico,
a skiing village in the south central mountain chain.
My parents were both teachers, which means I was given the obligatory love of learning and reading.
I graduated from high school in the mid-1990s and attended the University of New Mexico where I studied the art of
writing comedy under Emmy award winner Digby Wolfe.
I harbored dreams of running off to Hollywood to write the next big sitcom, but about the time graduation
rolled around, "Survivor" hit and I went into news design instead.
For the last eight years, I've been working at the Albuquerque Journal
(Sunday circulation: 170,000) as a news and features designer. I also freelance for the Journal's
features desk covering such broad topics as Academy Award nominees, cross-country road trips, trends in
denim and the drifting fad sweeping the sport compact car scene. I also write an occasional chick-lit review
round up for the Books page. My biggest literary coup came when my review for Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez was
blurbed on the back cover of the trade paperback.
I've also worked as a contributing editor to Entertainment Geekly,
a science fiction news and commentary site.
When I'm not sitting in front of a computer monitor, I'm training for my first triathlon, prepping my 2001
Mazda Miata for race season, obsessively following pop culture and drinking lots and lots of coffee.
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