Background: Editor/Publisher of several multi-author collections including THE BIBLE OF HELL (2000) and THERE IS SOMETHING IN OCTOBER (2005), and the award winning literary journals, PENNY DREADFUL: TALES & POEMS OF FANTASTIC TERROR and SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE.

Education: Jersey City State University where I edited the school's art & literary magazine, EXCALIBUR.

Early influences: Eugene Field, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Mark Twain.