Sean in Montreal, June, 2006.
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Unseen, offstage, behind every literary name are all the teachers, editors, friends, families, critics and detractors that help make an artist perform to their fullest potential. Behind every accomplishment I list on these pages stands a cadre without whom I would have achieved nothing. Thank you to all mentioned, and unmentioned, on this site.
I'm still in the literary preseason, but since going totally blind in 1995 I have published ten short stories, have won or been a finalist in fifteen national and regional writing competitions in literary and genre categories, as well as my favorite, a second place in screenplay. My NJ Wordsmith winning essay, Present Forever, was performed by the Unlimited Potential Theater Company in 2004.
That same year, I was voted onto the Philadelphia Writers Conference board of directors, and have been named chair and creator of the PWC's Free Forums, which take place at Drexel University. As of June, 2008, I'm now the PWC's vice president and its workshops chair, as well.
I have taught at the Ocean City, NJ, Arts Center and have been a public speaker at schools, retirement centers and Lions clubs in MO, NJ and PA about living and working with blindness. I have served on the editorial board of Philadelphia Stories magazine, took my MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson in 2006 and am profoundly thankful to my mentors there. In 2007 I joined the reading staff of The Literary Review.
I have the stellar good fortune to live with my love, virtuoso writer
Robin Parks, on the Philadelphia Main Line.
Please check out my father's obituary and links to his paintings at the bottom of this page, at TNT R.I.P.
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