Marcos Villatoro

In August of that year he moved to Davenport, Iowa, where he attended St. Ambrose University as a seminarian for the Roman Catholic Church.

In November of that year he and his wife moved to Nicaragua with the nonprofit program Witness for Peace, where they reported war atrocities in the northern department of Nueva Segovia, on the Honduran border.

In 1986 the couple moved back to the United States, where they worked in an environmental education camp in the Tennessee Smokey Mountains.

The couple moved to northern Alabama, where his wife worked as an advocate of the growing migrant farm community.

That same year he, Michelle and their four children moved to Los Angeles, California, where McPeek Villatoro was hired as the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Mount St. Mary's University, Los Angeles.