About me
I was born in a small town, now a small city, in Argentina. This small city is called Totoras, which in English is Cattails. I started writing when I was 14. Mostly poetry. I wrote my first story five years later and it was published in one of the papers in the city where I was studying Language and Literature. I prefer to forget that story: it was bad, period. When I came to the United States, I studied Teaching English as a Second Language. I have taught courses for over 30 years in Spanish Language, Latin American Literature and Latin American Studies as well as Gender Studies. I have translated academic and literary texts, from English into Spanish and Spanish into English. I have served on the collective and board of various non-profit organizations in San Francisco and Los Angeles. I have published poetry, fiction (short stories) and translations, and participated in many literary readings. I live in San Francisco, California, with my wife Lisa, and until recently, with our noble and loving cat Ute who passed away. In our garden, where Lisa and I sometimes write and Ute used to love to sit, look around, and smell the flowers and plants, there are blue jays, hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies, and at night, raccoons. I like to watch films, particularly in movie theaters, read books about non-human animal intelligence, emotion and conservation, read fiction and again fiction, re-read fiction, watch fútbol (oops, soccer!) games, make vegetarian risotto, and take long walks.