I come by my love of storytelling naturally. From my paternal grandfather, a Wesleyan Methodist preacher who sprinkled his sermons with stories only—cough, cough—mildly exaggerated, to my maternal grandfather—a crack shot who could shoot a dancing tick off the back of a racing deer at a hundred yards—exchanging fish stories with friends over a game of draughts, to Sunday dinners where the whole family gathered to enjoy Mom’s cooking and exchange humorous family anecdotes, I was raised to spin yarns and tell tall tales.

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Born in western New York, I moved my wife and young son to the Saint Louis area via Conestoga wagon—or a Dodge Shadow—in ‘93, where we still reside along with our two 70-pound pups of questionable heritage.

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Like many of the old west’s characters, my trails in life have been many. I shepherded a flock as pastor of a church, rode night herd over 250 rambunctious young men as a college resident hall director, corralled young soccer stars as both referee and coach, wrangled with the IRS as an Enrolled Agent, and rustled grub in my fifth wheel on the road with my sweetheart and the two grub-hogs.

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I'm is an award-winning author of short stories including The Six Second Debt and Quiet, Wyoming Territory. My first novel, Vengeance Trail is under contract to Oghma Creative Media. I am currently working on the sequel.