I’m Dr. Darren Dillman.
I’m from New Mexico and grew up in a Phelps-Dodge (now Freeport-McMoran) town not far from the Chiricahua Apache homeland that stretches into southwestern New Mexico. I have taught college-level English in China, Taiwan, the Marshall Islands and in the U.S. I have learned to speak some Mandarin, but my Spanish is honestly better.
My education has taken me to some interesting locations. I earned my bachelor’s degree at University of the Southwest, a small Christian college in New Mexico. Then I earned two master’s degrees, an MA in English and an MFA in creative writing (fiction) from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. After a dozen years of teaching, I landed a scholarship at Western Sydney University in Sydney, Australia, where I engaged in significant travel and had my brain modified by grad school inquisitors.
In my free time I enjoy watching sports, especially high school and college basketball. My hometown of Hobbs, New Mexico, is a well-known basketball town, and our girls team competes for the title almost every season. I also like to swim, run, and hike. I have written and published nearly a dozen short stories and a handful of poems, but screenwriting is probably my favorite form.