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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, 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 Assistant Professor of English at Indiana State University where he teaches Creative Writing and Contemporary Literature. His fiction has appeared in 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.

InDigest 1207 was started to further the mission of InDigest Magazine (indigestmag.com): to create a dialogue about the arts, through the arts. By having authors speak to or read from another author who has influenced them--positively or negatively--we hope to show that the process of writing (and reading) is not done in a vacuum, but is an interactive process. Authors have previously brought in e-mails, text messages, song lyrics, paintings, and student writing, as well as poetry and prose by other great authors.