Hello, and thanks for checking in to my little corner of the Web. I’m an author, magazine writer, teacher, former reporter and editor, news junkie, and lover of books, movies, the Red Sox, fly fishing, thoroughbred racing, and (when I can afford it) casino blackjack.

I’ve written six books and a hundred or so magazine articles. My most recent book— and my first work of fiction— is Love in a Dark Place, which depicts an impassioned, but tortured love affair set across four decades. It’s described by Publishers Weekly as “a vivid, empathetic mystery of love, loss and 1980s Atlantic City,” I’m told it’s a terrific read. I’m hoping you’ll read it and agree.

Of the earlier books, one (The Game of Their Lives) was adapted for a 2005 movie. (You can view the trailer on the Books link, above). Seventeen of the magazine stories were anthologized in a 2019 book, The Grifter, The Poet and The Runaway Train.

The writers whose work has reached the deepest inside me are, in no particular order or chronology: Russell Banks, Richard Ford, Andre Dubus senior, Earnest Hemingway, Susan Minot, Norman Maclean and Charles Dickens.

I’m a former adjunct professor of writing at UMass Lowell, and have taught residencies at several other schools and universities. I received a Bread Loaf Fellowship for nonfiction writing, as well as other awards, and was a finalist for a National Magazine Award.

I hope you’ll click around, maybe read one or two of the stories here, check out the books, and get in touch if you feel like it. My email address is included. I’d love to hear from you.