I write speculative fiction because I'm obsessed with the future and what people say and think about it. As a child, I kept a scrapbook of newspaper articles and discovered the future would have flying cars powered by atomic pills and refrigerators that cooked food at the press of a button. It would look like Disney's Tomorrowland. These visions of things to come—always about technology and independent of changes in society and humanity—never made sense until I read "Waiting for Godot," "1984," and "Cat’s Cradle." I wasn't always sure there would be a future.

I was born near the beginning of the Cold War in St. Louis, Missouri in 1947. My father was a B-52 pilot who trained for the day when his entire family would be obliterated in a puff of radioactive smoke, and he would ride a Stratofortress on a one-way mission to Hell and retribution.

I studied psychology at Washington University and systems engineering at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. Before entering a civilian life of research, development, and entrepreneurial startups, I was an Air Force intelligence officer, strategic planner, and systems engineer. My name is on several patents for cybersecurity and cryptography. I published my first novel, "The Perfection of Fish," in 2020.

I live outside Annapolis, Maryland with my wife of 51 years, Patricia. I'm a member of the Black Writers Collective, the Writers Guild, and the Maryland Writers’ Association. When I'm not writing or traveling, I dabble in astrophysics as a member of a local scientific society.