I have a degree in French literature and language from the University of Maryland College Park. Before I found Stein, I loved Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and Jacque Prevert. My current passion is Jane and Paul Bowles. I spent three weeks working on my writing with Paul Bowles in Tangier, Morocco in the early 1980s. PB helped with some of my Gertrude Stein poems which much later became part of my opera.

2005 successful New York City premiere of my opera Gertrude Stein Invents A Jump Early On in collaboration with composer William Banfield and Encompass New Opera Theatre director Nancy Rhodes with a review in the New York Times.

2002 winner of the Towson University Prize for Literature (Looking For Divine Transportation -- poetry)

1989-92 Fellowships, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
1981 First Prize, Billee Murray Denny Award, Lincoln College, IL

The Steiny Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas, now available from Unlimited Publishing in limited advance release. This is my story about how a poet writes an opera, opera in America and the collaboration between Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson.

SteinOpera
This website tracks the development of the opera Gertrude Stein Invents A Jump Early On. It also provides information and links to other website on Gertrude Stein.

The Steiny Road To Operadom
This blog discusses the process of publishing a nonfiction book such The Steiny Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas.

The Dressing
This is an ats blog where I go behind the scenes to see what is underneath the artistic work.

Scene4 Magazine
This international theater Ezine is where I have a monthly column called The Steiny Road to Operadom where I discuss the world of theater and art through the lens of Gertrude Stein. From these columns comes my book The Steiny Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas