I started writing when I was a teenager, mostly imitating Rush songs, and thus I didn't get dates. Then life changed. I earned two creative writing degrees, married, reproduced, landed a responsible job, began remodeling ramblers, and quit writing creatively for five years because I was tired as hell.

In the past five years, I’ve been writing seriously again, and have completed a book entitled Cul De Sac, stories about salt-of-the-earth-type suburban guys. See the Writings section. I'm now writing a screenplay based on some of the Cul De Sac characters.

I've published work in The Rake, Identity Theory, Night Train, Pindeldyboz, Word Riot, Great River Review, and Minnesota Monthly, among other places. I am winner of the 2006-07 Loft Mentor Series Fiction Award and recently won the Third Coast 2008 Nonfiction Award. I have also been nominated for the Best New American Writers of 2009.

 

March 1, 2010. The inaugural issue of Sententia will publish "After the Lovin'" from my collection, CUL DE SAC, most likely in time for Engelbert Humperdinck's 74th birthday on May 2.

May 4, 2009: The Spring issue of Third Coast is out and includes my award-winning essay, which award-winning writer and judge Patricia Hampl says sketches a "devastating picture of contemporary American culture," which proves once again that I'm a glass half-full sort of guy.

Sep. 18, 2008: If you can find the four embedded Engelbert Humperlinks on this website, you could win a classic Rex of Romance 8-track tape, "Last of the Romantics" which includes The Enge's hard to find remake of Debbie Boone's emotional hit, "You Light up my Life"!

May 15, 2008: I won the 2008 Third Coast Creative Nonfiction contest. The essay will appear in the Spring 2009 issue.

Mar. 14, 2008: "The Absence or Addition of Fish," from Cul De Sac, appears in March's Word Riot.

Oct. 1, 2007: Read "Peckers" in Night Train and "Storage" in The Rake.