I spent much of my working life dreaming of the day when I could devote my time and energy to my love of literature.

I grew up as an Air Force brat, living in various places around the U.S. and in Italy as a child, and I entered the Air Force myself after graduating from the University of Washington in 1980 with degrees in math and English. I spent 25 years as an Air Force officer, serving in communications, space, and cyberwarfare positions. I then worked as a NATO civil servant, ending as the principal technical advisor at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE).

After retiring from NATO, I took the MA Biography/Creative Nonfiction programme at the University of East Anglia, graduating with a first in 2020 as the Lorna Sage Prize winner. In the same year, I was short-listed for the Tony Lothian Award from the Biographers’ Club. While at UEA, I became involved with the UEA Publishing Project and began editing the Recovered Books series for Boiler House Press and, as of May 2025, have brought 16 superb and long-forgotten books back to print, with introductions by such notable writers as Vivian Gornick, George Szirtes, Jonathan Coe, Catherine Taylor, Louisa Treger, Terese Svoboda, and Joanna Pocock.

In 2022, I led a year-long reading group for Dorothy Richardson’s series-novel Pilgrimage and created Reading Pilgrimage to support readers of Richardson’s work. My passion for this remarkable and underappreciated work led me to obtain the permissions for the chapter-volumes still under copyright, and in July 2025, I published the first complete U.S. edition of Pilgrimage in almost 50 years through Libroj Books. This set is now available for sale exclusively from Asterism Books.

I spent 2021 to 2024 researching and writing the biography Virginia Faulkner: A Life in Two Acts, which will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in January 2026. I have also written contributions to a number of books and other works you can find listed in my Publications.

I also organized year-long reading groups and created websites to support them: Wafer-Thin Books (2024); and MusicofTime.com, for the 2025 read of Anthony Powell’s A Dance to the Music of Time series. Between 1996 and 2006, I wrote the hundreds of articles about exotica, easy listening, and other types of oddball music on SpaceAgePop.com, which is still online though no longer actively updated.

From time to time, I speak and teach on culture, literature, and project management. These appearances can be found under Events.

A few things written about my work:

You can find information about my experience and education on my LinkedIn page.