Bio

Writing is a life-long passion but I’ve always made a living doing other things. I’ve been a first responder, an archaeologist, and in early 2025, I retired after a nearly three-decade career in technology to focus exclusively on writing.

My first published short story, a fantasy novelette called “The Ethics of Elemental Servitude”, appeared in The Worlds Within in March of 2023, and later sold as a reprint to a small press anthology, The Apparatus Almanac, from JayHenge Publishing. My short fiction has also appeared in Creepy, Suburban Witchcraft Arts & Literature Magazine, Dark Horses Magazine, and 365tomorrows.

I make my home in Lake Forest Park, Washington, just north of Seattle. When not telling stories, you can find me on the mat at Two Cranes Aikido, diving the Salish Sea, hanging out with my three amazing adult daughters (Ashley, Maddy, and Charlotte), and exploring the mountains and coastlines of the Pacific Northwest with my wife, Susie, and my dog, Jack.

Work In Progress

On the new work front, I’m currently looking for publishers for a fantasy novella, The Solace of Things Long Forgotten, and a science fiction novelette, “All the Deserted Places”.

I’m working on two new short stories, a magical realism tale, “Graveyard, In Peonies and Glass”, and a cyberpunk story, “Better Living Through Quantum Entanglement”.

By fall, I hope to be deep into a horror/mystery novella with the working title Anathema. It will be set in a second world fantasy setting I’ve been developing for several years now.

And finally, at some point next year, I’ll be starting my first novel, a dark fantasy set in the same world as Anathema, with the working title Under a Black Flag. You can probably guess a bit more about it from there…

Recognition

In 2025, my short story, “A Gravedigger of the Deepholds” was nominated for a 2025 Pushcart Prize.

In 2023, my novelette, “The Ethics of Elemental Servitude” received an Honorable Mention in the Q3 2023 Writers of the Future Contest.