I served as a Vietnamese linguist in the Air Force during the Vietnam War. I graduated from the University of Nebraska at Omaha with a Bachelor of Science degree, where I studied journalism, political science and creative writing. I have worked as a radio reporter, an advertising copywriter, a technical writer, a speechwriter, a public information officer, an executive director of a non-profit organization and most recently as an assistant dean at an independent law school in Chicago. My short stories have been published in Crosscurrents, Old Hickory Review, the Piedmont Literary Review, the Minotaur, Snapdragon, Four Quarters, FlashFiction, Quick Fiction, Bear River Review and Inside Running. In the summer of 1999, I was awarded a professional artist residency at the OxBow Summer Arts Program for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Saugatuck, Michigan, during which portions of A Life Without Grace were written. I live in Downers Grove, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, with his wife.
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