WRITER / NOVELIST / ESSAYIST
- Letters to the Universe: Essays on crime, craft, and the middle way, 2014-2023 Excerpt from Letters to the Universe, available now at Amazon… I think I had been up for four days when I robbed the second gas station. But it could have been five days or even six. I don’t know. Days run together […]
- I was pissed when Colson Whitehead won the Pulitzer Prize in 2020 for his best-selling novel, The Nickel Boys. I remember listening to his interview on NPR’s Fresh Air while quarantined in a prison on the Florida Panhandle during the height of Covid, feeling the way an overzealous sports dad must feel when someone else’s […]
- Letters to the Universe Hard to believe I’m now on the verge of releasing number seven, a hybrid memoir and essay collection that spans the final nine years of a twenty-year mandatory prison sentence, an era in which I learned to conquer my demons through the redemptive power of writing. Is it Pulitzer caliber? Probably […]
- Once upon a time, before the iPhone, before Facebook, before Hurricane Katrina, back when George W. Bush was still President, I plead guilty in both state and federal court to a boatload of charges including armed robbery and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. I didn’t hurt anyone. Not physically at least. And […]
- Excerpt from my upcoming hybrid memoir Greetings, friends. It’s been a minute since I’ve been on here sharing anything new… February, to be exact, when I posted my last essay Take Me To Church. A move and a new job assignment have kept me away from my desk quite a lot these past few months. But I’ve […]
