ABOUT …
As a biopic producer-writer, my superpower is translating life stories into dramatic, compelling entertainment for the screen. A biography obsessive since I was a little girl, I’m the author of the critically acclaimed Kovacsland: A Biography of Ernie Kovacs (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich) and the producer-writer of eighteen episodes of the Emmy-nominated prime-time biopic series E! True Hollywood Stories. My first biopic feature screenplay was optioned at the Cannes Film Festival. I am currently developing biopic-based dramatic (scripted) series for television and writing a biography-based novel.
As a seasoned publishing professional, I edit books (memoir/biography, art, spirituality, fiction/poetry, and Latinx/border subjects) for Sounds True, New World Library, Shambhala, Museum of New Mexico Press, University of Arizona Press, and independent authors.
A longtime arts journalist, I’ve written for ARTnews, Elle, GQ, Harper’s Bazaar, O: The Oprah Magazine, and many other periodicals. On staff I’ve been Senior Producer-Writer for E! Entertainment Television, Editor in Chief of International Documentary Magazine, Art + Architecture Writer for the LA Daily News, and Associate Editor of Emmy: The Magazine of the Television Arts & Sciences.
My work has been honored with fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, the Entertainment Industries Council, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the Harwood Museum of Art, and other organizations.
A Puerto Rican raised in SoCal (does that make me a Califorícan?), I left LA in 2006, lived in Guatemala, and now commune with coyotes, ravens, hummingbirds, and my four-legged familiar on the ancestral lands of the northern Tiwa people, known today as Taos, New Mexico.
Photo by Ona Matulic.