I am a San Jose native and have had the pleasure of exploring every neighborhood of this expansive and beautifully diverse city for over thirty years. I graduated cum laude from San Jose State University with a degree in English and Comparative Literature with a concentration on Career Writing. I have been writing fiction since elementary school, and have been dabbling in the art of technical writing for the past two years. I am currently working on a book of short stories, hoping to capture the wonder of growing up in an age when you still had to venture outside in order to find mystery and adventure.