Bio

Birth: Cleveland, Ohio in 1950

Provenances: 30 different houses/apartments/rooms of at least a couple months duration: Minnesota (twice), Michigan (twice), Ontario, Illinois, South Korea (Peace Corps), Massachusetts (since 1978, including 36 years in the same house), Maine (since 1986)

Accomplishments: raised Calvinist and surviving; stopping graduate school at a Master's Degree; navigating the world courtesy of Peace Corps; not getting a real job until the age of 29; medical and science publishing of astounding specialization; retiring early; volunteering for Coastal Mountains Land Trust (past Board President and current Advisory Council member) and Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance ( past Board President and current committee chair); winning the 2018 John N. Cole Award for Maine-themed Nonfiction from the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance.

Writing:

             East of Edgerton: A Memoir of Peace Corps and Beyond (January 2018, CreateSpace)

             One Man's Maine: Essays on a Love Affair (May 2017, Green Writers Press)

             Owls Head Revisited (April, 2015, North Country Press)

             Some 100 poems and personal essays in magazines and journals

Family: amazing wife Cindy Dockrell, intrepid daughters Kate and Emma, and fond memories (RIP: 7/29/2017) of exasperatingly cute mini-poodle Mia