I grew up in Lockport, NY, a quiet, snowy town ~30 miles north of Buffalo. I moved 60 miles east, to Rochester NY, in 1997, and I’m still here. I’m an English professor at Monroe Community College, where I teach college composition and developmental English.

I have two grown-up kids and an 11-year-old shepherd/husky named Dax.

I’m an avid outdoorsman, and like to disappear into the Adirondack Mountains whenever I can. I love backpacking, ice-climbing, and hiking the Adirondack High Peaks in the winter. I’ve been backpacking in Alaska a few times, and I think of those trips as my greatest adventures.

I also love traveling. I visited Iceland, Norway, and Sweden in 2024, and went to Portugal with my partner, Anne, in 2025.

I went to SUNY Fredonia for undergrad and SUNY Stony Brook for my masters, way back in the 1990s. I was a mediocre tortured poet back then with a pony tail and lots of Nirvana CDs. I’ve written essay and drama, and I self-published the memoir of a WW2 veteran who fought with the 101st Airborne in 2012. Since then, I’ve focused exclusively on fiction. Most of it’s horror, and all of it is dark.