My writing began when I joined the Navy and shipped off to Morocco.  Seasick and homesick I began writing long letters to my mother describing my adventures.  These continued letters home evolved into my life long habit of keeping a journal --the basis for much of my writing.  After the Navy I enrolled at Penn State in Geology but found my passion in an English literature class.  And, there my first poems were published in the literary magazine, “The Pivot”.

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I find myself now living and writing in my LES apartment, after teaching in Alaska, homesteading in Vermont and studying at the Yale Drama School and in the Columbia fiction program.