Lately, I was doing this manifesting program–this app–with a friend. And what I wrote down after one of the exercises really spoke to me about my “mission” right now: Creating meaningful and transformative work and sharing wisdom gained in the creative process to help and inspire others. Hell, yeah. I’d sign up for a life like that (even if it took me decades to figure out this was where I was trying to get to). (Still trying to get to.)

The how of it is primarily through fiction and poetry (though I recently completed a memoir). I’ve been published in Narrative Magazine, Kenyon Review, Mississippi Review, Front Porch Journal, Fringe Magazine, Willow Springs, and Briar Cliff Review, among others.

My prose poem, “12 Steps of a Tradeshow Junkie,” earned first place in a contest judged by Joyce Carol Oates. Oates and Robert Nazarine (editor and publisher of MARGIE, where the poem was first published) later nominated the poem for a Pushcart Prize.

I create and collaborate on other various word–and sometimes visual and music–stuff. Please check out my current or past projects.