He is currently a senior editor for Design News, an international trade publication. His poetry and fiction has been published widely over thee decades. For ten years he owned a publishing company that published Chile Pepper magazine as well as books. He served as president of Southwest Writers for two two-year stints. He also writes drama, a blog, and reviews plays. He is the author of six books published by national publishers such as St. Martin’s Press and Dearborn. Spiegel has worked with top agents both as an author and a book publisher. He has taught writing in workshops, classes, in presentations at writers’ conferences nationally, and he has taught journalism at the University of New Mexico and Central New Mexico Community College.