My education is in English, Physics and Russian. My passion is the stories people tell, which means history, myth, and fiction. Influences range from Aquinas to Zelazny. Oscar Wilde's idea of prose poetry had a large influence on me, as did Ambrose Bierce's "The Devil's Dictionary." I am a writer because the alternative is inconceivable. I am a lover of words and music and motion. Life is my infatuation; death my ultimate destination.

Short Story Collection "The Lives Of Ghosts And Other Shades Of Memory" won the 2001 Eppie for best anthology.

"The Lives Of Ghosts" was second in Eternity Online's Best Of The Web" 1998.

NESFA winner (for The Lives Of Ghosts) in 1998.

"Lanikaula And The Powers Of Lanai" placed in Altair's International Short Story Competition in 1998.

DM Press Short Story Of The Year for "The Eyes Of Yesterday" in 1996.

A fantasy novel of mine, A Slow And Silent Stream, will be released in paperback next year by the Fiction Works--the ebook has already been released on their site. A science fiction novel of mine, "The Gates Of Sleep," is due out in paperback from RAP books in the August/September timeframe.