A sixth generation Texan, I spent much of my childhood at my uncle’s ranch in South Texas, the one place indelibly stamped on my life and writing. It is the love of this place and its people that compelled me to write A Wasp in the Fig Tree. I graduated The College of William and Mary in Virginia with degrees in English and Spanish and now I live in the country outside of Austin, Texas so that I may immerse myself in what I love: writing and the training and breeding of Iberian horses.