I was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, have traveled throughout the world and have lived variously between the Southwest, Mid-west, the South, and the Northeast coast. Recently I authored a novel We Were Beautiful Once, Chapters from the Cold War (Sunbury Press, 2013), inspired by a case I tried against the U.S. government for an accounting of a Korean War soldier it claimed was MIA. The trial was featured in a 2004 documentary Missing, Presumed Dead: The Search for America's POWs narrated by Ed Asner. In 2013, my poem Registered Letter was chosen for publication in the anthology Proud to Be: Writing by American Warriors, Volume 2 by the Missouri Humanities Council, Warriors Arts Alliance, and Southeast Missouri State University Press. In 2012, I was one of two finalists for the Red Mountain Press, top poetry honors for The Interior; and one of three finalists for the 2012 Esurance Poetry prize for The Road Home. In 2007, I authored A Road Once Traveled, Life from All Sides, a narrativ