I am a 60-year-old nomadic author and screenwriter currently working out of my 1973 VW bus, Buster. I hold a Master's in Rhetoric & Communication from UC Davis, but I count forty years on the road—hopping trains, driving semi-trucks, sailing boats, and living on reservation land—as my real postdoctoral work.

I created the award-winning multimedia project The Noise Beneath the Apple, which earned a Book of the Year Award, Shelf Unbound recognition, and Best of Indie honors, accompanied by a companion vinyl record and a one-of-a-kind recording of "New York State of Mind" that Lee Zimmerman of No Depression called "nothing less than an essential archival collection." My subsequent book, Shelter in Motion, gathers 22 boosted, award-winning essays born from a life lived on the move, one of which has been adapted into my upcoming film work.

My debut feature screenplay, The King's Basketball, was developed under the mentorship of Kyle Bass at the Colgate Writers Conference. Whether I'm writing prose or stepping behind the camera to direct, I care about history left by the wayside and stories built out of real, dirt-under-the-fingernails texture.

Current Work: Adapting an essay from Shelter in Motion into my upcoming narrative short, One Last Time to Boston (pre-production for Spring 2027 in Southern Oregon), using my vintage Westfalia bus as a mobile production base.