About

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I was born in Zambia and grew up in the dying days of apartheid South Africa. Life was turbulent and exciting then, when it wasn't terrifying, which imprinted me with exquisitely raw awareness and a consequent yearning to express it through poetry. 

Instinctually, I tried to balance the ache of existence with the staggering beauty of nature.

I started writing in my teens, was editor of my school's poetry magazine my senior year, and wrote as a coping mechanism to endure a two-year military conscription and combat experience as an Infantry Platoon Commander in the South African Defense Force.

After getting a degree in Architecture in Cape Town, I moved to the US, living, building, and playing in Santa Fe, New Mexico and the greater Southwest for 25 years, and then to Vashon Island in the Puget Sound to add forest and ocean idioms to my desert-pared soul. Living with Rheumatoid Disease for a quarter century has greatly enhanced my appreciation for existing.

I live a contented life, and write poetry and prose when I'm not working to pay the bills. 

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." - Krishnamurti