Fiction writer, teacher. Formerly a journalist, technical writer, ad copywriter, freelance magazine writer. I read poetry and hope it helps the prose, but don't count myself a poet. Currently working on a novel and a screenplay, and also trying to find a combination of stories that makes a collection with a solid core. Big fan of low-gore monster movies, British Invasion rock, and novel series with protagonists named Harry. I'm told that in a previous incarnation I was a tree, which might explain why I've moved around so much in this lifetime. Asked recently to name 5 favorite living writers I said Haruki Murakami, James Lee Burke, Ada Limon, Christopher Moore and Mary Gaitskill. Ask me tomorrow and the names will be different. Oh, and I'm not thrilled that Bob Dylan won the Nobel. Love the man's work, longtime fan. But words written to be sung along with music are a different thing than words written to make the music themselves. My view could change with time. Most things do.