Favorite Bands: Megadeth, Testament, Slayer, Possessed, Venom, The Haunted, At The Gates, Opeth, Immortal, Dark Tranquillity, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Guns N' Roses, Tool, Gluecifer, G.B.H, The Hookers, Trouble, Living Sacrifice, Stavesacre, AC/DC, Fleetwood Mac, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd

Favorite Writers: William Goldman, Ernest Hemingway, Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Robert Sheckley, Richard Matheson, J.D. Salinger, Hunter S. Thompson, Robert E. Howard, Ray Bradbury, Robert McCammon, Clark Ashton Smith, David Morrell, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Donald Westlake

Favorite Poets: Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rudyard Kipling, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Short Version: I am a former journalist whose short stories have appeared in a number of small press magazines and literary venues since 1988. For a complete bibliography, click here. I am currently a technical writer for an Internet technology company in Dallas, Texas, where I live with my wife, writer Angeline Hawkes.