Born in Detroit, 1968. Raised in Grosse Pointe Park, a suburb of Detroit, educated in public schools there & then in a Catholic high school, De LaSalle Collegiate, taught by the LaSallean Christian Brothers. Post- secondary education at the University of Chicago, the College, earning an AB in English literature in 1990, albeit with a one-year stint at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, to study poetry (with poet & classicist Jim Powell). Three years of wage-slavery followed: eighteen months at a correspondence high school on the South Side of Chicago, another eighteen as a researcher at the City Colleges of Chicago. In 1993 began studies at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, earning a Master of Arts in Divinity in 1994 & a PhD in DivinBorn in Detroit, 1968. Raised in Grosse Pointe Park, a suburb of Detroit, educated in public schools there & then in a Catholic high school, De LaSalle Collegiate, taught by the LaSallean Christian Brothers. Post- secondary education at the University of Chicago, the College, earning an AB in English literature in 1990, albeit with a one-year stint at Reed College, in Portland, Oregon, to study poetry (with poet & classicist Jim Powell). Three years of wage-slavery followed: eighteen months at a correspondence high school on the South Side of Chicago, another eighteen as a researcher at the City Colleges of Chicago. In 1993 began studies at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, earning a Master of Arts in Divinity in 1994 & a PhD in Divinity, specializing in Religion & Literature, in 1999. In the midst of this, some movement: notably, a period traveling in Greece in 1994, including a visit to the holy island of Patmos where Orthodox iconography was discovered & a year spent living in Vienna in 1997-8, where coffee & opera were discovered. More notably & somewhat earlier, epistolary contact with poet Ronald Johnson was initiated in 1992, followed by a few valuable meetings in San Francisco. Mentored by RJ until his death, in 1998. Not before being asked by the ailing poet to be his literary executor. This charge has resulted in three books: To Do As Adam Did: Selected Poems (Talisman House, 2000, The Shrubberies, a collection of last poems (Flood Editions, 2001), and a reprinting of Radi os (Flood, 2005). As well as various archival tasks, ongoing. So far, two books of poetry: Watchfulness (Spuyten Duyvil, 2001) & Depth Theology (Georgia, 2006). Also one critical book, Gnostic Contagion: Robert Duncan & the Poetry of Illness (Wesleyan, 2002). Since late 2001, following eighteen months in St. Louis, residency in Berwyn, a working-class suburb on the west side of Chicago, in a house, with wife, Rebecca Houze, an art historian, & two sons, Gabriel & Lucian. Teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago....more