Writer

Read some of my writing:
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"Professor" at Haibun Today
"Crows" at contemporary haibun online
"The Gnome's Spectacles" at Niteblade

The summer after fourth grade I made my mother take me to the public library so I could photocopy the pages of The Writer's Market that described mystery magazines. My plan was to write a few mystery stories, send them off to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine or Ellery Queen, and enter fifth grade a published author.

That was my plan.

Well, not only did I not publish any stories that summer, I didn't even finish writing any.

But I never stopped wanting to be a writer. It's something I've been working on ever since that trip to the library thirty years ago, both in the classroom (I have a B.A. in English with a concentration in Creative Writing, an M.A. in Professional Writing, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing) and at the typewriter (I've published somewhere around twenty short stories and poems in various places).

I also teach English at the college level—while I was getting my M.F.A. at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia, I was a Teaching Fellow and taught English 1101, English 1102, World Literature, and Business Communications. I continued to teach there for a while as an adjunct English instructor. Now I teach English at Georgia Perimeter College.