I write stories about people in small places.

— kitchens, back roads, quiet houses, towns that don’t make the news. Sometimes the stories are realistic. Sometimes they get strange. I don’t have a mission statement. I just write.

I’ve been an executive chef for more than twenty‑five years, and that attention to work and detail shows up in the fiction. I make art too. It comes from the same place. My stories have appeared in Blood+Honey, The New Territory, Abundance, Mania, Broken Tea Cup, and The Clio. I’m working on my first novel.