About
I was born in Alpine, Texas, in 1974.
The desert got to me early and never left.
I grew up in Marfa when it was still quiet. A small town with long days and not much noise. There was space to think, to wander, to get bored in the good way. My imagination grew wide there.
A sentence could turn into a whole world. I didn’t know that was unusual. I thought everyone’s mind worked like that.
I found my way into a professional kitchen by taking a chance. Turns out I was good at it. Turns out I loved it. Twenty-four years in kitchens shaped how I see, how I listen, how I write. I left in 2023 to focus on writing. Then I went back. Now I do both. West Texas is still home.
My work moves between fiction, memoir, cultural criticism, and archival research. I pay attention to people whose lives were overlooked, mishandled, or flattened into someone else’s version.
Through The Archive, I write essays and make documentary films about what happens when real lives become stories for sale—and who disappears in the process. My fiction and books appear under Nightwork Press, my own imprint.
Different rooms. Same attention. Same spine.
