Born and raised in New York City, now living in Harlem. Educated at Columbia University where he received prizes including the Cornell Woolrich Writing Fellowship. Writing includes fiction, poetry, songs, essays, translations (Spanish). Employment and activities have included teaching, landscape gardening, music, art, environmental advocacy. Travel photography including to Myanmar, Iceland, Svalbard, Russia, Bhutan, Patagonia. A former member of the US currach-rowing delegation to Ireland and frequent performer at the Sakevino Arts Salon in NYC.