Andrew L. Huerta lives in Tucson, Arizona, where he has spent the last twenty-four years in Higher Education teaching/advising students who are the first in their families to attend college. With his MA in Creative Writing and PhD in Education, he just published a collection of short stories entitled A Different Man (Bold Stroke Books) and is now looking to complete his first novel, Raggedy Anthony. His short stories have appeared in Chelsea Station Magazine, The Round Up Writer’s Zine: Pride Edition, Jonathan, The Storyteller, and the anthologies Queerly Loving, First Came Fear: New Tales of Horror, and Hashtag Queer Volume 2. His personal essays have appeared in Fashionably Late: Gay, Bi, and Trans Men Who Came Out Later in Life and Queer Families: An LGBTQ+ True Stories Anthology. For more information please visit: www.andrewlhuerta.com.