ABOUT

Born and raised in South Texas

Spent childhood summers with mother's family in small pueblito outside Mexico City.

Native Hispanohablante and cuentista (storyteller)

Mother and father both dancers and teachers

Married to kind teacher man from large Irish-Polish family

Future adoptive parent

Sources of inspiration:

Oral storytelling of our ancestors

My students, their families, and their ways of being and loving

Knowing that every child is born with an important story

Knowing that every child has the capacity to live fully through stories