Andrew L. Huerta lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he has spent the last twenty-two years working in Higher Education. As the instructor and advisor of undergraduate students who are the first in their families to go to college, Andrew teaches technical and professional writing courses that prepare students for their transition into graduate education. As the youngest in a Mexican American family of six children, much of Andrew's inspiration comes from his Huerta-Lopez family history. The remainder of his stories, both fiction and nonfiction, come from his travels, his time in Education, and his varied life experience in and around southern Arizona.