I'm a writer, father of three and husband of one. I enjoy clean living and dirty jokes and love old dogs and small lakes.
I grew up in the Chicago area, attended college on the “Chick” Evans Scholarship for financially-needy golf caddies at the University of Illinois, and spent several years living and working in the Midwest, Colorado and London. My wife and I currently live in Vermont with our sons and a semi-domesticated wolf named Monty.
My writing includes miscellaneous works of short fiction, non-fiction essays, observations on the writing life, and novels titled Undiscovered Country and A Reason to Run.
My short fiction has appeared in Flash Fiction Magazine, Cold Lake Anthology and Zig Zag Lit Mag. My story The Golden Boy took first place in Flash Fiction Magazine's summer 2023 writing contest. A Reason to Run was awarded a Silver Medal by the Independent Publishers of New England in 2024.

Wondering why my website is called Mad Gorilla Writes? Years ago my son told his pre-school teachers to pronounce his last name "mad gorilla." Since then it's become one of our family's many inside jokes. It also inspired the name of one of the characters in my first novel (A Reason to Run), although given Sam Bags's last name is Bagliarello, the character is called Bad Gorilla.