Born in Akron, Ohio, November 17, 1966.  Scorpio sun, Pisces rising, Aquarius moon.  Grew up in suburbs, Cuyahoga Falls, Tallmadge, played video games (i.e. Atari), pinball, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, and football.  Got scholarship to go to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, 1985, went to London in 87-88 for junior year and it was there that I began to write seriously, as a poet and novelist, and became inspired to make art, although I did not actually start painting until I had returned to Ohio in 1989.  In London I met Simon Skinner, his brother Andrew and their friend Mark Scanlon who all encouraged me.  Simon became my best friend as I worked on the first novel, Blue, which I published in 2000 under Xlibris, a partner of Random House.  

 

In May 1994 I married Robyn Herr in Kent, Ohio and in May 1995 I got sober.  In August 2001 we moved from Kent to Berkeley California so Robyn could study theology and I could climb in Yosemite.  We did both but separated in January 2003.  I stayed in Berkeley for a while, eventually moving to Walnut Creek for six months then here to San Francisco in July 2004.  I am close to finishing my second novel, Daydream Nation, I think. Aside from shows in Ohio including Studio 425 I have shown my work here in SF at the Black Light Ball.  I am preparing slides and a portfolio to send to galleries.