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In my free time, I started writing in old notebooks: novel ideas, journal entries, letters to friends who lived in other countries. I could spend hours trying to make silly anecdotes turn into major adventures. Around that time, I discovered I had some skill in drawing, which was not a big surprise since an artistic vein runs through my mother’s side of the family. I enrolled in extracurricular painting classes with a beloved artist who was so ancient (in my teenager mind) that he was featured in history textbooks. I participated in several collective art exhibits and decided that my future was in the visual arts. When I turned eighteen, I moved to the United States to go to college and got a degree in fine arts and mass communication & journalism from The University of New Mexico. I worked in the fields of advertising, graphic design and illustration until I had my children. Between naps and changing diapers, I started writing my first novel, which I envisioned as a Latin American soap opera, but the realities of my life (i.e. living in an English-speaking country) made me reconsider the format and rewrite it as a novel instead. The Sisters of Alameda Street was born out of those first attempts at writing and evolved into a novel that finally got published in 2017 (after almost twenty years of its original conception!). I’ve written five more novels since, including a sequel to my latest novel The Spanish Daughter, which I'm really excited to share with the world!