This interview originally appeared on the Corner Canyon Press website.

Where did you grow up?

My family is from Southern California, but we moved to Utah, about 30 minutes outside of Salt Lake City,when I was very young. It was all dairy farms and fields back then. My mom used to say that they'd drive thirty minutes for Taco Bell because it was the only "Mexican" food they could find. Utah was a lot smaller and more conservative then.I was one of two non-Mormons in my entire grade. It was an in...