Favorite Authors/Screenwriters (in no particular order) 1. Charles Bukowski 2. Haruki Murakami 3. W. Somerset Maugham 4. Raymond Carver 5. Paul Auster 6. Flannery O'Connor 7. John Updike 8. Carlos Fuentes 9. James M. Cain 10. David Simon 11. Robert Towne 12. John Steinbeck 13. Paul Theroux 14. Geoff Dyer 15. Samuel Beckett 16. Albert Camus 17. Charlie Kaufman 18. Mark Helprin 19. Gabriel Garcia Marquez 20. Isabel Allende |
I currently teach English 3-4, Film Studies, Latino Literature and AP Language and Composition. I have been teaching at Gunderson for 9 years. I am also the advisor for the California Scholarship Federation.
I earned a Bachelors of Art in English from UC Davis with a minor in History. I am originally from Riverside, Ca where I got my teacher's credential from UC Riverside in the photo above (standing next to my brother Pat). Top 10 Favorite Films 1. The Godfather 2. Rear Window 3. Once 4. Harold and Maude 5. The 400 Blows 6. The Princess and the Warrior 7. The Bicycle Thief 8. Say Anything 9. Modern Times 10. Into the Wild |