Carmen Delzell lives somewhere between Mexico City and Austin, Texas. She has lived in Saltillo, Coahuilla, and San Miguel de Allende since 1993 when she won a National Endowment grant and hit the road running. She has two grown children and makes her living selling antiques, travel stories, and sometimes her “nichos” which fetch as much as $35 each. Many years ago she graduated from Goddard College and lived in Washington, D.C., where she had a vintage clothing store called Blue Moon.
Her stories have aired on All Things Considered, Hearing Voices, PRX, Savvy Traveler, and This American Life. Most of the work in this first collection dates from 1980-2010. She’s been in print or online in Wigwag, Transom, Gargoyle and Washington Review. NBC News Nightline did a feature on her life on September 10, 1993. You can find it on YouTube.