Welcome to my website! I’m a queer poet, elder, storyteller, and visual artist. A former Penn State professor and Fortune 500 vice president, I retired into the social vacuum of Covid-19 and returned to poetry after decades of writing prose in business and academia.

Delighted to be building a community of creative writers, I hold an abiding belief in the power of small groups to accomplish great things, from achieving social justice in organizations to workshopping a poem that isn’t quite there yet. I’m indebted to all my writing friends and my MFA compatriots at Spalding University for making me a better writer. My work has appeared in Yellow Arrow Journal, Maryland Literary Review, Pen in Hand and MacQueen’s Quinterly, among others. I’m a relentlessly curious world-traveler who calls Maryland home.