Influences

• The nuances, the fun, the misery, the artistry of language has always been a huge influence. Additionally, authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, Joseph Conrad, Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut, Carlos Fuentes, Amy Tan, and probably a thousand more. Finally, the struggle to just once get it right influences me (through motivation).

Favorite Books

• Men in Green Faces, Love and Rutabaga, Children's Writer's Word Book, One Hundred Years of Solitude, City, The Joy Luck Club, Heart of Darkness, The Sound and the Fury, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Girl Interrupted, Midnight Cowboy, Learning to Bow, Death on the Installment plan, American Knees, Along the Edge of America

Favorite Authors

• Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alijandra Mogilner, Carson McCullers, Ken Kesey, Betty Jurus, Allen Ginsburg, Alice Walker, Bill Bryson, Carlos Fuentes, John Steinbeck, Bailey White, Toni Morrison, Joseph Heller, Joseph Conrad, Peter Jenkins

What I'm Reading

• The Rule of Four, Kwanzaa, The Dead Fathers Club, My Sister's Keeper