I'm a small town, American playwright raised in Alabama, New Mexico and West Texas. My aesthetic view is a fusion of Southern Appalachian and Southwest U.S. culture and heavily influenced by the literary genres of Magical Realism, Romanticism and Gothicism. A member of the Dramatists Guild and a Tennessee Williams Scholar at Sewanee, I have a degree in Theatre Arts and an English Literature minor from the University of New Mexico. My full-length plays include the Southern Gothic crime noir, To Tread Among Serpents (Off-Off Broadway production, Winner of the Southern Playwrights Competition, O'Neill Semi-finalist) and the dark comedy western, The Hall of Final Ruin (Stage Raw Los Angeles Playwriting Award, Renaissance Theaterworks Brink! Award, Great Plains Theatre Conference Finalist, Stowe Story Labs Finalist, Two-time Princess Grace Semi-finalist, BAPF Semi-finalist). Other plays include A Poison Squad of Whispering Women (BAPF Finalist), Second Death of a Mad Wife, and Maria Rasputin in Spangleland as well as many 10-minute plays. My short play, El Loro, El Gato Y El Espíritu Santo (or The Parrot, the Cat and the Holy Ghost) is published by YouthPLAYS. I’ve worked with theaters from New York to LA, Chicago to Chile. Notable theaters include Third Stone Theatre Company at HB Playwrights Theatre (Off-Off Broadway), Ophelia’s Jump Productions (CA), The Barter Theatre (VA), NyLon Fusion (NYC), Renaissance Theaterworks (Milwaukee), Something Marvelous (Chicago), The Bechdel Group (NYC), and Teatro Vivo (Austin). I make my home in the small farming village of Peralta, New Mexico, USA, where I write full time.