My Story

All About Me

I was born in Houston and graduated with a double major in journalism and Spanish from Trinity University (I was going to school in San Antonio, after all, three hours from the border with Mexico). I spent a year at the Corpus Christi Caller-Times in the features department before attending Radcliffe College's summer publishing course in Cambridge, Mass. Then I moved to New York City (why not? It was the center of the publishing world) and wrote for variety of trade magazines before landing at Forbes as a fact checker/reporter. It was an exciting time, contributing to articles about the stock market crash of 1987, the world’s billionaires and penny stock fraudsters. I was promoted to staff writer and transferred back home to the Houston office, where I penned stories about companies in the southwest and the people behind them. 

I always wanted to work in another country, so when the opportunity came up to edit the English-language version of El Financiero, I pounced. After a year, I came back to Houston, where I edited a startup magazine, Mexico Business, and as a freelancer, contributed articles to Latin Trade, Texas Monthly and Worth, among others. Later, I joined another startup, The Deal, where I wrote about energy for 16 years. After that, I returned to Forbes as a senior contributor and then wrote for The Texas Lawbook, where I still work part-time.

In my personal writing life, I co-authored "Art Cars: Revolutionary Movement," published by the Ineri Foundation. I am a member of Writers' League of Texas and I have attended several writing workshops and conferences, including the WLT, Inprint and Murphy Writing. I am in a writing group, where we share our work and encourage each other. I have explored many genres of writing, including memoir, personal essay, flash non-fiction and poetry. I recently read from my work at an event hosted by Inprint in Houston and a Murphy writing retreat in Florida.