“Curb Appeal” is part of a recently completed collection manuscript; all of the works in the collection are, in some way, related to “real life” environmental disasters and controversies in and around the Great Lakes. Other stories from the manuscript have appeared in Image, Terrain.org, New Ohio Review and Sycamore Review. His previous two books, Spooky Action at a Distance and Behold Faith, both appeared with Dufour editions. He teaches in the BFA in Creative Writing program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, where he also serves as Consulting Editor for the literary journal Lake Effect.