I learned to read at home when I was four or five. Then, when I was about six, the public schools of Cleveland, Ohio introduced me to the classics, as you see here. I’ve been writing for publication since 1961, when I had a story published in the student literary magazine at the University of Illinois. It was a parody — “Chicken Little” as Dostoevsky would have written it.

In the years since then, my writing's been published in a diverse, not to say wild, range of magazines and anthologies; various editions of my books have come from presses of notably different sorts and sizes, eg, Doubleday and Shameless Hussy. In 2008 I worked with Ash Creek Press in Oregon to create an elegant folded broadside and a chapbook manuscript in an envelope (see The Ash Creek Series below; click on photos for those pages); soon there'll be a third entry in the series, so check back in a few months.

I'm mostly writing stories and poems now, though occasional essays force their way into my mind, onto this screen and even out to paper pages; they are apparently unstoppable.

From this page you can click to ……
~ my books, with commentaries, excerpts, responses and photos for each
~ anthologies that include my writing, with publication information for all
~ a list of recently published and coming-soon poems, essays and stories
~ a poem, essay and story right here on the website, for instant gratification