Writer’s Bio

Thank you for stopping by! My love for writing and reading started in the same place as it does with many aspiring horror/suspense writers: the master Stephen King. I can remember the days of sitting in my high school physics class, doodling characters from The Stand, yearning to write a similar novel that could come even close to King’s masterpiece. My drawings sucked, but my imagination cracked open like an egg, my imaginary yolk running forth, as I spent more time in bookstores and libraries than anywhere else in my youth.

From King and McCammon and all those popular eighties writers, it turned into Vonnegut, Dostoevsky, Woolf, Camus, Kafka, Hardy, Richard Wright, Chuck Palahniuk, and most notably—Haruki Murakami, whose short story “The Elephant Vanishes,” altered my perspective on how fiction can impact a reader. Murakami was my first proper introduction into the Weird, I would say, and ever since encountering that story in college, I have been picking away at honing a craft that can capture’s Murakami’s brilliant sense of atmosphere and strangeness, worlds that often cannot be summarized and only experienced.

Now in my mid-thirties, my writing runs the generic gamut: sometimes I venture into “literary horror” (whatever this phrase means) and other times I want a story, simply told, where the speculative element hovers at the fringes. Either way, I love stories, and prefer a good ole tale to any story that overextends poeticism or form. Don’t get me wrong, I love a juicy metaphor or an ear-catching string of alliteration, but mostly I like to turn to the next page, to be subsumed by what I’m reading.

See below for more about what my writing entails, literary magazines that I support, and writers who inspire me. Also check out the link below to my published short stories to read one of my stories for yourself.