...In addition to writing and publishing best-selling, award-winning novels, my works of short fiction and poetry appear in several popular anthologies. I also narrate audiobooks of poetry and prose, and am active within the Kidlit community as faculty for various writing workshops and conferences.... (read more)
...Around the same time that I started grad school, I started tutoring for an established tutoring center in Dallas. A few months later, my wife and I assumed ownership of the center after the founding owner decided he could no longer run it. We ran it successfully for a number of years until we had to move across the country so I could accept a full-time teaching position at a university. (read more)