Few things in life have been as interesting or necessary to me as literature and writing.

I feel fortunate that as an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, I was a student of Louis Rubin, Jr., founder of Algonquin Press. He opened up the world of writing for me and encouraged me in his gruff way! At Stanford, where I was a Stegner Fellow, I had the honor of studying with Wallace Stegner, the great man himself. I’ve published four books: two short story collections, a memoir and a novel. I’ve recently completed a new novel, The Empty Cell, about four characters who are impacted by the lynching of a young black man in my hometown of Greenville, S.C. I hope the novel will be available in 2020. If you’d like to be on a mailing list to be notified when it’s published, send me your email address via my contact form, and I’ll be happy to let you know. Thank you for visiting my website.