Smashwords: Where did you grow up, and how did this influence your writing?
Queens, New York mostly. Working class neighborhoods
exuding the incredible diversity (ethnic, racial, lingual,
political, cultural) that exists everywhere in New York City have
enriched my life and broadened my perceptions beyond anything that would
have been possible had my parents raised me in their native homogeneous
Galicia (Spain) of the 1960s and '70s. My writing reflects the vast
multicultural soup in which I was thoroughly steeped and slow-cooked. So
does my trilingual upbringing (Spanish, Galician, English) with their
separate rich roots and very different cadences, sensibilities and
predilections. These have informed my poetry, fiction, non-fiction and
life in indelible ways at levels beyond conscious thought.
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