Rodriguez, Bety

TERE TOPETE was born in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, in 1952. She graduated from the Instituto Tecnologico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO) with a degree in Communication Sciences. She's a teacher, consultant, author, and poetess, as well as a mentor, daughter, sister, partner, counseling friend, and above all, mother to her only son, AJ. THE SPROUT THAT I SPRUNG is her first published novel.