…grew up in many American regions: California, the desert Southwest, the Pacific Northwest, the Deep South. He now lives in Massachusetts. His first love was biology and he earned his MS in Neurophysiology at the University of Missouri. Times being what they were, he became a software engineer. In recent years he has built avionics for planes and rockets.

It supports the writing habit.

He is best known for his short stories. “The Color Winter” was a finalist for the Nebula Award. “The Secret Lives of Fairy Tales,” reprinted here at BVC, was first published by The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.

He’s published three novels. Caliban Landing (Congdon and Weed, 1988) and Slow Lightning (Tor, 1991) dealt with the complexities of alien contact. Welcome to Witchlandia (BVC, 2016) is a paranormal police procedural. His first story collection, Simple Things (BVC, 2019), handles all sorts of things.