In 2003 I graduated from Emerson College. After working in restaurants in Boston for a year, I took a job as the ninth grade English teacher at Thurgood Marshall Academy in Washington, DC. When my TMA contract was up, I returned to my nomadic roots.

I eventually settled in Pawleys Island, South Carolina and enrolled part-time at Coastal Carolina University where I met my wife Laura in a literary theory course. In 2007 I started my MFA in fiction at Boston University.

Laura was chosen for a Princeton in Asia teaching fellowship in June of 2008, and immediately moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand to begin teaching about a zillion 8th graders. I joined her as soon as I finished my thesis, and we got married in Chiang Mai on August 29th. While in Asia, we traveled quite a lot (see blog). Though I worked part-time for ACE! Education, USA, a test-prep and English training agency, I spent most of my time working on a novel. Laura and I fell in love with Thailand, but we decided not to stay for a second year and to come back to the States. Currently, we are back home in South Carolina.

In the fall of 2009 I made a decision to enroll at Horry-Georgetown Technical Community College and retrain for a new profession: Heat Ventilation and Air Conditioning, otherwise known as HVAC. With the help of South Carolina Educational Lottery Funds, and my status as a county resident, my tuition for an accelerated certification is very reasonable. I hope to be fully certified and working as a residential HVAC tech by the summer of 2010. It has always been my dream to start a small business, and HVAC might one day be the way I get there.

There are a few sections to this site.

The fiction link at the top of the page will take you to a collection of my short fiction.

Between Worlds is an on-going series published once a week in issues.

Showcases are recordings of storytellers I admire.

Blog posts are notes on my writing process, thoughts on what I’m reading, my experiences as an HVAC student, reports on recent travels, and life with La. Sometimes memoir sneaks into the posts. Other topics often include thoughts on energy efficiency, cooking, publishing, and new technology.

Podcasts are recorded readings of my stories.

Equipment list:
Microphone: Sennheiser e835.
Recorder: Marantz PMD660.
Headphones: Sony MDR-V250.
Computer: iBook G4.
Software: Audacity, Transmit, Microsoft Word.

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And be sure to check out Laura Mogel-Sturgis’s blog, too!!