I've got a MA in political science from the New School for Social Research in NYC, and did most of my graduate level studies in the areas of race and caste systems, slave and ex-slave systems, religion and its impacts on social systems, and historical weirdnesses i didn't understand more generally. Around the same time, I was working on what would turn out to be my first trunk novel, and realized I was choosing my classes based on whether they'd further my research for my creative writing rather than my (purported) career as a political scientist, and decided maybe I wasn't really as driven to be a professor as I'd thought. I moved from NYC to San Francisco in 1997, and since then have lived in Sydney, Albuquerque, Seattle, San Diego, and finally Portland Oregon. Prior to New York, I lived in Florida, Europe (mostly London, Poland and Prague), Los Angeles area and Eureka, California, so I've always been a bit transient. In addition to the writing and traveling and general shiftlessness, I've developed a serious interest in and practice with meditation, and have traveled to India to attend classes with the Dalai Lama after living at a meditation school in Australia for almost a year. I also attended Seattle Film Institute and received their filmmaking certification in 2005.

Over this time, I've written nonfiction articles on graffiti art, meditation and (more recently) Jung's The Red Book. I published a children's story in an anthology by bizarro fictionist, Andrew Goldfarb called Ogner Stump's 1,000 Sorrows by Wonderella Press, worked on a number of short film screenplays as a writer, creative consultant, done a little bit of acting and directing, and published a few short (fiction) stories in webzines. I also began work on the work that would become Rook, which is now in both graphic novel and novel form...and yet started off as a screenplay, oddly enough. I'm now well into writing the sequel, and venturing into the wonderful and humbling world of learning how to sell the darned things...