Victor David Giron
I'm the son of immigrants from Mexico and Guatemala and now live in Chicago. I'm a dad first, accountant second, and writer third. My short work has appeared in Rougarou, Umbrella Factory Magazine, Jersey Devil Press, Diverse Voices Quarterly, ZaftigZen, The Logan Square Literary Review, Chicago Parent Magazine, and others.
I started Curbside Splendor Publishing in late 2009 to publish my first novel Sophomoric Philosophy (Nov 2010). Sophomoric Philosophy is a coming-of-age story featuring Alejandro ("Alex") Lopez, a 30-something Mexican-American accountant living in contemporary Chicago. If you listen to any best of 80s Hair Metal band albums and watch the movie Dazed and Confused, you'll get the idea.
Curbside now publishes stories and poems online, and makes books. We present a bi-monthly reading series at Beauty Bar Chicago (occurring the second Sunday of every other month).
Visit us at www.curbsidesplendor.com.
“So, why the hell don’t adults talk about anything interesting anyway? Or maybe it’s just the ones I know, but really, what the fuck?”
“I consider myself a Chicagoan now, having lived in the city since I graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in accounting. I came here often when I went to Maine West High School out in Des Plaines, which is a short drive west on the Kennedy or a short Blue Line ride toward O’Hare airport, the next-to-last stop in fact. My friends and I would take the Blue Line downtown and then transfer to the Red or Brown Line up to Belmont and Clark, our favorite part of the city when we were 16 and 17, mainly because of The Alley—a store that sold concert shirts, posters, spiked bracelets and stuff like that—and Gramophone Records, the electronic music store that took my virginity, so to speak. - 1st paragraph from Sophomoric Philosophy”