I am a fiction writer, storyteller and poet, and an Assistant Editor with Narrative Magazine. I have published poems in such places as Ploughshares, Anderbo.com and Cottonwood, two chapbooks with White Pine and FootHills, and self-published Walking Home from the Eastman House. I have told stories in various places in Rochester and upstate New York, including the National Women’s Hall of Fame; I recently performed an original version of the lives of Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony, entitled “Two Kinds of Fear.†My story “My Cousin Gabe†appears in the current issue of Crack the Spine Literary Magazine. My wife Pam and I have two children and two grandchildren.