I returned to creative writing after a long detour in the newspaper business and a better-late-than-never MFA at Antioch University Los Angeles. My work has appeared in The MacGuffin, Willawa, Voicecatcher, New Letters, Apple Valley Review, The American Journal of Poetry, Diode Poetry Journal, and other publications. My books include Stories Grandma Never Told and Childless by Marriage. When not writing, I lead an alternate life as a music minister in Newport, Oregon.