Aaron Michael Morales was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona, and is a graduate of Purdue University's MFA program. He has taught Creative Writing, Masculinity in Literature & Film, Latin American Literature, Multi-Cultural Literature, Contemporary Literature, and Rhetoric and Composition at a number of colleges, including Columbia College of Chicago, Richard J. Daley College, Robert Morris College, and Purdue University. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of English & Gender Studies at Indiana State University where he teaches Creative Writing and Contemporary Literature. His fiction has appeared in Superstition Review, Another Chicago Magazine, Passages North, and MAKE Magazine, among other places. His first short collection of fiction, titled From Here You Can Almost See the End of the Desert, was published in 2008 by Momotombo Press at the University of Notre Dame's Institute for Latino Studies. He has authored one novel, Drowning Tucson, and is currently at work on his second, Eat Your Children. He is also the author of a popular culture composition textbook, The American Mashup: A Popular Culture Reader. Morales is also a regular contributor to Terre Haute Living Magazine, as well as a book reviewer for both MultiCultural Review and Latino Poetry Review.