I’m a writer, editor, reviewer, musician, and general media junkie, with a passion for science fiction, music, hockey, movies, spy fiction, coffee, video games, good friends, and far too many television shows. I grew up near Buffalo, New York and have also lived in New York City, Iowa City, and Los Angeles. I currently live and work in Portland, Oregon.
I started reading and writing fiction in my early teens and have been pursuing a writing career, more or less, ever since. I’m primarily a writer of genre fiction: science fiction, fantasy, mystery, spy fiction, and blends of the above.
After high school I pieced together a special studies writing degree from New York University, SUNY at Fredonia, and Michigan State University — the latter for credits from the Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writer’s Workshop, which I attended in 1994. My first short story was published in 1998, and I’ve since sold to a number of markets in the SF and fantasy genres, including Asimov’s SF, Cosmos, Interzone, Lightspeed, Talebones, and The Third Alternative. From 2004 to 2010 I was the fiction editor for Futurismic. New novels and stories are in the works. In 2012, I attended the Taos Toolbox Writer’s Workshop.
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Short Fiction
May 2025
“Introduction to Immersive Memory-Crafting”
March 2020
“The Men Who Change the World”
January 2020
“August 2017
- Honorable mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, 35th Annual Collection (Gardner Dozois, editor)
“Videoville”
December 2014
- Honorable mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, 32nd Annual Collection (Gardner Dozois, editor)
- Recommended Reading, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 (Rich Horton, editor)
“Frame of Mind”
Cosmos Online
September 2008
- Honorable mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, 26th Annual Collection (Gardner Dozois, editor)
“The Scarlet Number”
Hub
January 2008 (#42)
“April 2007 (#20)
“Divining Rod and the Countess”
Farthing
January 2007 (#5)
“Systemic”
Winter 2005 (#31)
“Bastogne v.9”
May/June 2005 (#199)
- Honorable mention, The Year’s Best Science Fiction, 23rd Annual Collection (Gardner Dozois, editor)
“A World of His Own”
March/April 2005 (#198)
“Pure Moment”
May 2003
“Predestiny”
April 2002 (#23)
“Skullier than the Average Bod”
November 2001 (#13)
- Reprinted in Best of the Rest 3, 2002
“Filth”
Fall 2000 (#20)
“The World Stops”
The Third Alternative
Summer 2000 (#24)
“Gallery of the Eighth Day”
The Third Alternative
Fall 1999 (#21)
- Honorable mention, Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 13th Annual Collection (Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, editors)
“Sharp Relief”
Terra Incognita
Summer 1998 (#3)
“The Chaldron”
Aboriginal Science Fiction
Summer 1998 (#57/58)
Interviews
- Andrew C. Porter interviews me about Futurismic.
- Catherine Schaff-Stump interviews me about Taos Toolbox.
- Lightspeed author spotlight for “An Inflexible Truth.”
- Lightspeed author spotlight for “The Men Who Change the World.”