Biography:

Born 1938. Grew up in Finger Lakes of NY. Graduate The Hill School. Studied lit. at Hamilton Coll. (BA), Bread Loaf School of English (Middlebury U.), Washington U. (MA); psych. at the C. G. Jung Inst., Switz. Teacher, counselor, administrator, lecturer in Philadelphia, St. Louis, Lugano, Zurich (26 years there).

In '86 purchased farm on Clear Island, Co. Cork, Ireland, where moved permanently '92. Then turned full-time freelance journalist, writer, poet, broadcaster, &, from 1994-2000, int'l storytelling festival director.

Now contributes feature articles (over 100 to date) to The Irish Examiner, The Marine Times & The Southern Star in Ireland; magazines in Switzerland (ORNIS), the US (ISLANDS, Tale Trader, Organica), the UK (Facts & Fiction, Storylines), & Ireland (Reality, Ireland's Own, An t-Oileánach); reads pieces (over 30) on RTE's "Sunday Miscellany" & "Seascapes"; 1-on-1 half hour interview on Pat Kenny Show; solo interview on BBC, Radio 4; regular on variety of Irish radio programmes; featured on "Nationwide" TV programme Nov. '98; 20 "Weather Notebook" pieces broadcast over 180 stations by the USA's National Public Radio in '98 -'01; overall winner of "Cork Literary Review's" 1998 & 2000 Short Story Competitions, adjudicated by David Marcus, 2nd in their '99 Competition, with poems commended and publ. '97-'00; runner-up in '98 Poet's Podium contest & prose piece selected for commemorative volume; winner of Bantry Community Art's '98 Photography Contest & runner-up in poetry contest with 6 poems amongst 12 winners; poem selected for inclusion in the Shinrone Lughnasa Festival (Yvonne O'Connor Poetry Contest) 2000 book; one of 3 winners in the "1999 Fallen Leaves Short Story Competition" & 2 other stories shortlisted; poems publ. in "The Stinging Fly", "Reality", "Poetry Ireland Review", "Books Ireland", "Reality", "The Burning Bush", "The Shop" & the "Cork Literary Review"; poetry readings under auspices of Irish Writers' Union, featured poet at Cork Arts Fest '98 and at Border Books, outside Princeton NJ in '99; short story selected for inclusion in Phoenix Irish Short Stories 1999; runner-up in Spotlight on Skerries poetry competition 1999; 4 poems selected for inclusion in Cork's Poets For The Millennium Anthology (Nov. 1999).

Recent speeches: launched the Triskel Art Centre's Holocaust Show "I have not seen a butterfly around here"; launched the first Courtmacsherry Storytelling Carnival; launched at Cobh Library the book Lives Less Ordinary; featured speaker at Samhlaiocht Chiarraí in '98 and at the Ti Chulainn Centre in South Armagh in '99; featured storyteller in Israel at the Centre for Storytelling's 10th anniversary celebrations.

Co-edited Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales, publ. by Spring '74; Cape Clear Island Magic (a collection of poems, short stories, essays, & photos) publ. by Collins of Cork in '94, reissued '95 & '99 - called "probable classic" by The Irish Examiner, received sturdy credit in the Irish Times (an Irishman's Diary devoted to it). A collection of short stories - Flotsam & Jetsam - published by Bradshaw Books Dec. 2000. A collection of poems (Birdsong, Butterflies, & Bees), and an autobiography about synchronicities entitled The Joiner's Tale, nearing completion. International thriller The Man Who Talks to Himself publ. '98 by Southernmost House Press. Irish Times hailed it "an epic story of intrigue and greed" and "a ripping read". A lyric novel Ciarán of Cape Clear, Storyteller: From Druid to Five Loaves of Bread & a work entitled The Cut of the Tide, an Irish Island Diary ready for publication. Member Irish Writers' Union & Poetry Society of America.