Keeping It Real

This poem was previously published in the 2014 edition of Huizache and in the collection Shattering and Bricolage. During the 80s I lived in the projects, Section 8 housing, a block of apartments Facing the Pharr Community Center. Dad had abandoned us. I was sixteen, Sleeping on pallets with Matthew…

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TAPME Award for Comment and Criticism

Each year, the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors joins with the Headliners Foundation of Texas to recognize outstanding journalism as practiced by the state’s daily newspapers. Through this partnership, the Texas APME’s annual contest is complemented by a group of honors known as the Texas APME Headliners Excellence in Journalism…

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Advance Praise for The Smoking Mirror

A couple of authors have offered up early praise for my upcoming YA fantasy novel The Smoking Mirror. “A wild, magical adventure into an ancient world, where two young but brave twins will do anything to save their family…emotional and mystical!” —Guadalupe Garcia McCall, award-winning author of Under the Mesquite and…

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