Bio
My mother, a retired teacher’s aid, is from El Barrio in New York City and my father, a retired postal worker, is from Bayamon, Puerto Rico. I was born and raised in the Bronx and now reside in St. Albans, Queens with my beautiful wife and crash test preschooler.
I'm a graduate of Fordham University School of Law and received my Bachelors from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Prior to that, I served three years in the U.S. Army as a Combat Engineer where I was stationed in Missouri, California, Georgia and South Korea. While in the Army, I'm proud to say I received my Associates in Liberal Arts with a focus on Religious Studies from St. Leo College despite a hectic schedule that had my unit in the field nearly two weeks out of every month. In my professional life, I've been an attorney practicing law in New York City since 1999.
Story telling and art have been a significant part of my life since childhood. Not contented with merely playing with my action figures, I had to create elaborate scenes that went beyond my favorite movies, television shows, and comics, construct intricate play sets, and make new characters that I sculpted from aluminum foil, and masking and colored tape (clay wasn't an option for me back then).
I had always wanted to be a comic book artist and writer and had planned to go to school for it, but my parents insisted that I put my talents to constructive use by becoming an architect. I went to college to study architecture, but dropped out after my freshman year because of financial difficulty and joined the Army for the G.I. Bill. My career goals changed from architecture to the law while I was in the service, but my passion for story telling and art never waned.
Being a litigation attorney feeds my creative urges because being a story teller is part of my job: I take a certain set of facts and relevant law, and meld them together to create a compelling narrative to convince judge or jury that my clients should prevail. Yet, of course, being an attorney alone could not satiate me.
I began seriously writing fiction while in law school. I was a longtime student of the Gotham Writers Workshop and completed my first novel, A Man at War, two years ago. I'm in the process of seeking representation for my fourth novel, Daughters of Earth. Now, as I had as a child, I'm creating new worlds or showing old worlds in a new light. As part of the creative process, I draw and paint my main characters, design maps of the main locales, and make title banners for each story.
Originally, I had worked in pencils and art markers, but now I mainly work in Photoshop. The artwork you see on this site was all done in Photoshop.