I have over thirty years’ experience as a freelance fiction writer and book reviewer. I have published ten novels to date, two of which have been short-listed for prestigious awards.

I have advised young writers, participated in high school lecture programs, and given organizational addresses on the state of the profession, the writer’s life, art, and history.

As well, I have over thirty years’ experience in photography and the visual arts.

I would like to do more public speaking and can offer a wide range of topics and addresses. I am interested in being a full-time novelist, public speaker, and writing teacher.

I began wanting to be a writer, and veered off into photography in high school. This was probably a good thing, since there were no decent instructors in either in my school, and I was rather bad at the writing. I became fairly good at photography. All my pursuits have had public aspects–art, music, literature. I’m something of a ham when I have an audience, but I’m self-conscious about my abilities. Nevertheless, I love the doing. I attended Clarion in 1988 where I finally learned how to write and also made some of the best friends of my life–Kelley Eskridge, Nicola Griffith, Daryl Gregory, Brooks Caruthers, Peg Kerr–and gained a decade of wisdom in six weeks (at least it feels like that).

I could have done none of this without my partner, Donna, to whom I owe what happiness I have–and I think I have quite a lot.