I started my writing career at nineteen on a three-day backpacking solo in Australia, alone in the wilderness and watching lines of ants for hours at a time. From this developed an existential crisis (what are we but ants?) that evolved into thousands of poems, many written during drunken, lonely nights.

While developing a passion for transcendentalist writing and working my way through an English degree and some MA classes at Johns Hopkins’ fiction writing program, I experienced three manic episodes that took me to the depths of fear and despair and the peaks of mania, all explored candidly in my self-published memoir Icarus Redeemed: A Schizoaffective Story. From these experiences I learned that the distance between one’s greatest height and lowest abyss creates depth in a soul. I became an uncle and wrote a middle-grade book series, The Planet Mechanic, for my nieces and nephew. Then I became a father and wrote numerous picture books, a middle-grade book entitled The Dragonflies, and a middle-grade series called The Pirates of Lake Raven (all unpublished).

I enjoy hiking, climbing, and running on a weekly basis. Whenever possible, I go backpacking in the wilderness as a way to clear my mind and be reminded of the often overlooked truth of existence: every material thing we ever need in life can fit on our backs. 

Most of my time is spent with my two young daughters and family and friends. From them I have developed a drive to move forward, despite life's occassional setbacks. For 18 years, I have run my own digital marketing agency.