After I received my bachelor’s in English from Fairleigh Dickinson University, I went on to earn my master’s from John F. Kennedy University. Throughout the years I have worked as a cook, mechanic, and college professor; held various management positions; and was a USAF captain in Vietnam. Now retired, I focus wholeheartedly on my writing and have been published in OmniVerse, The Scribbler, The Round, Blue Lake Review, Crack the Spine, and Oxford Magazine. I also host at Poetry Express Berkeley. I am a member of the Bay Area Poets Coalition and was awarded honorable mention in the 2013 and 2014 Maggi H. Meyer Memorial Poetry Contest.