I want to make you see the world through the eyes of my characters, if only for a moment. At eleven I started writing fanciful stories, centered on my friends. I guess I still do that. Three writers have left an indelible stamp on me: Anton Chekov, Winston Graham (Poldark Saga) and Laura Lippman. Those are the master story tellers that I try to imitate like a 12-year-old in Little League does Cal Ripken. I grew up in Baltimore. Now I make my home in South Carolina, but the charms and faults of Baltimore are still a big part of who I am.
For twenty years I made my living as a cost analyst, including overseas stints as a contractor in Qatar, Bahrain, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.

Twenty-one years of night classes earned me a BA in Economics from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and an MBA from the University of Baltimore.
Member Pacific Northwest Writer’s Association
Member Charlotte Writer’s Group
Workshops taught at the Rivers of Ink writer’s conference: “The Basic Novelist” – 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014
Three time winner Central Indiana Short Story competition: 2012, 2013, 2015
Three short stories published in moonShine Review, 2017, 2019, 2023.

My debut novel, Cathedral Street, is a working class family saga set in Baltimore. Both it and the sequel, The New Road, try to capture some of the magic that city holds for me.