About the Man

I have 1 wife and 2 daughters. Physical beauty is rarely talked about in my house when there are so many other virtues better served by our attention. Like kindness, giggles, hard work, creativity, fierceness of body and mind, confidence, silliness. But sometimes their beauty simply speaks louder than my grandest notions.

 

I have 1 lazy cat, 1 manic dog and about 100 best friends. 1 writing shed, too, though always looking for more.

 

I'm a proud Kentuckian living in the Pacific Northwest. My writing walks the backroads between those places, between humor and hurt, between the life that was and the one that came after. Tossing rocks into mailboxes all along the way, hoping for 2 out of 3 and the good fortune that feat would bring. The work often returns to small towns, working people and the quiet distances inside families. The strange grace found in ordinary lives.

 

My collection Whiskey Days, 2nd Ed., nominated for the Oregon Book Award on its first release, revisits that line of reflection and reinvention. A new collection, Whippets on the Greyhound, has recently been accepted for publication by Whisk(e)y Tit Books and is expected for release in Spring 2027.  My current novel project, The Only Cab in the County, circles the life of a rural cab driver and the space that made him. My other kinda current project is a second novel about a musician and his inabilty to entertain any commitment beyond his song and his loyal mupper. 

 

Some of it happened. All of it is true.