My work background is in computer support. My aspiration background has always been an avid reader seeking to bloom into a writer. My influences are too numerous to list. I grew up reading science-fiction in the sixties and this burned in a desire to embody imagination in words. Though I've read many novels I particualrly like short stories and and have immersed myself in writers like Chekov, Jorge Luis Borges, Virginia Woolf, Vladmir Nabakov, Flannery O'Connor, Ralph Ellison and Saul Bellow.