Houston-based writer Katie Oxford has a unique way of looking at the world,which she details in her "Tattered Jeans" column for CultureMap. Oxford was bornand raised in Beaumont, where her memoir-in-progress, Broken Bowls and WoodenSpoons, is based. She has twice been a juried poet in the Houston PoetryFestival. Recently, one of her poems was honored at the Jambalaya Writers'Conference in Houma, La., and will be featured in an anthology.