My Story

I am a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee, a nominee for the storySouth Million Writers Award, and a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Prize sponsored by University of Georgia Press, the St. Lawrence Book Award sponsored by Black Lawrence Press, and the Bakeless Prize sponsored by Breadloaf Writers’ Conference and Middlebury College.  I have published more than 50 short stories.  I have received numerous awards and other forms of recognition for individual short stories including The Florida Review Editor’s Award for Fiction; James Still Prize for Short Fiction sponsored by Wind; Midnight Sun Award for Fiction sponsored by Permafrost; Third prize in the Arthur Edelstein Prize for Short Fiction; Finalist for the Raymond Carver Award for Short Fiction sponsored by Carve Magazine; and Honorable Mention in the New Letters Literary Award for Fiction and the Glimmer Train June, 2014 Fiction Open.  Below is a list of awards I have received.  I have also been published in The Saturday Evening Post, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, The South Dakota Review, The South Carolina Review, Dogwood, The Worcester Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal.   A complete list of my short story publications is below.  I earned a BA from Amherst College, Amherst, MA; a JD from Columbia University School of Law, New York, NY; and an MFA from Emerson College, Boston, MA.  I was the recipient of a Grant-in-Aid in Literature from the St. Botolph Club Foundation, Boston, MA where I lead a workshop in writing fiction.  

On a personal note, my wife and I have been married forever with three children and three grandchildren.  My law practice focused on clients who had their own businesses, real estate, estate planning and probate, and litigation.  I liked the challenge of being on my feet in the courtroom.  Before the pandemic shut down travel, my wife and I traveled internationally from Peru to Tibet to Vietnam and many places in between. We also travel domestically, cities mostly, as diverse as Philadelphia, Charleston, and San Antonio.  Our favorite is New York City which we visit several times a year to enjoy ballet, theater, classical music, and the museums, art, natural history, and others.  Art wise, my preferences run to Renaissance and Impressionist art.  Contemporary art leaves me cold as does modern atonal music.  Baroque composers are more my style though I’m warming to Mahler and Philip Glass.  My beverage indulgences are red wine and single malt Scotch.  While this may lose me a few sales to New York Yankee fans, I’ve been a Red Sox season ticket holder for many years.