Greetings, and welcome to my site. I've spent most of my life working as a writer and a writing teacher. These experiences are wound together in what can be best  described as a continuum of the word. I've worked as a journalist, an editor, and a technical writer; I've taught these subjects as well. Lately, I've turned to fiction and creative nonfiction. Creativity is life, and I try to live mine doing creative things. 

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My experience spans creative nonfiction, fiction, scholarly articles, journalism, and professional writing. I have contributed to publications ranging from Missouri Review and Michigan Quarterly Review to PopMatters and Adirondack Life Magazine, tackling subjects as diverse as history, culture, and technology. I was listed as a "notable" writer in Best American Essays 2020 and recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. I currently teach writing at Georgia Gwinnett College. 

I write about topics that interest me---the way the HBO series Deadwood depicts mutual aid on the Western Frontier, for example, or the 50th anniversary of M*A*S*H, America's great antiwar television series. I've written about the '90s, the fate of nature on a Civil War battlefield in Georgia, the first published photographs of dead American soldiers in World War II, and the political dimension of Fight Club. Lately, I've been writing and publishing dystopian and speculative fiction.