I was born in the little town of Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, Mexico, where I grew up listening to mariachi music and playing with hand-crafted toys. Years later, my family moved to Oakland, California, where I spend my teenage years. There, I enjoyed Oakland's diversity and I also met the wonderful people that belong to my family. Once I became an adult, I went on a journey to find a land of fantasy where I could develop myself as a writer and I founded Portland, Oregon. I lived in this rainy city for 10 years, until I decided to go back to Oaktown, the place that stole my heart. Oakland is the city where I write my stories every morning, the city that makes me feel at home; the only place on earth where the wind sounds like a Mexican-mariachi band and the coffee smells like Portland's rain.

Nací en el bello municipio de Tlaquepaque, Jalisco, México, donde crecí escuchando mariachi y jugando con artesanías. Después por circunstancias de la vida, me tocó vivir mi adolescencia en Oakland, California, donde conocí la diversidad y la gente maravillosa que forma parte de mi familia. Posteriormente, se me dio por buscar un lugar de fantasía donde pudiera desarrollarme como escritora y lo encontré en Portland, Oregón. Allí viví por 10 años hasta que decidí regresar a Oaktown la tierra que se adueñó de mi corazón, donde escribo mis historias cada mañana, donde el café huele a lluvia de Portland y donde el viento suena a mariachi de San Pedro.