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Small town Kansan born and bred, ex 50 year resident ofBrooklyn NY now residing in West Easton, PA; formerfree-lance musician (seventeen years as principal trumpetfor the New York City Opera) who now amuses himselfwriting poetry and fiction. Winner of the 2009 RichardBausch Short Story Prize, short listed for the 2006Raymond Carver Short Story Prize, cited among theTop 25 in the 2010 Glimmertrain New Writers Contest. A former member of the Sackett Street Writers andthe Upper Delaware Writer s Collective, his fiction hasbeen featured in The Best of Our Stories volumes oneand three. He is author of one novel: Pioneer Street ,and two books of poetry: Three from Osage Street and Dog Walking and Other Poems .