Fresh Kills is a genre-defying experimental work of fiction that looks at accelerating technological growth through the eyes of residents of New York's "forgotten borough," Staten Island. Poetry from this linked collection was featured in Strange Horizons. Originally published in 2009, this second edition was revised in 2025.
I'm the Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at Lehigh University. I have two daughters from a previous marriage and live in the Lehigh Valley of Pennsylvania.
I wrote my dissertation, "Alpha Geek," on sci-fi novelist Neal Stephenson and self-published, "The March," "Fresh Kills,", "Magisteria," "EXIT ZERO: Seven Stories," and the forthcoming "The Crossing of the Dawn Cypress."