Education & Credentials
Master of Fine Arts
Columbia University, 1991. Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Graduate Theatre Studies. Emphasis on Playwriting with Dr. Howard Stein. Consecutive Shubert Organization Presidential Scholarships. BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop. High Honors MFA Thesis.
Bachelor of Arts
University of Nebraska, 1987. English major, Theatre minor. Vreeland Scholar. Mari Sandoz Prairie Schooner Award for Fiction. American College Theatre Festival Playwright. Cable ACE Award. Daily Nebraskan Columnist.
Member: Dramatists Guild, Authors Guild, PEN America
New Releases
The One-Way Drop
No One Dies Lying
Swimming the Author
Tidal Volume
The Occupied Space
The Disposition
Ischia is Burning
DO HARM
No, I Will NOT Be Your Friend
The Rented Mind
Back to Willowbrook
The Necessary Art
Barbarous Ancestors
The Two Letters
The Black Ram
The Synthetic Cause
Synalosis
The Eighteen-Minute Lie
The Magnificent Loser
Not My Thing
The Source Code of the Self
The Rented Crowd
The Off Switch
The Nearest Hand
The Brittle Self
Beyond the Burial Tree
In My Mind I'm Standing Up
Commissioned Monsters
Tomorrow as Tribute
RelationShaping
The Scientific Aesthetic
UNDERWRITTEN
The Apothecary of Mantua
The Claimed Body
Carceral Nation
Ideas & Inquiry
No, I Will NOT Be Your Friend
The Rented Mind
The Necessary Art
Barbarous Ancestors
The Synthetic Cause
The Magnificent Loser
The Rented Crowd
The Nearest Hand
The Brittle Self
Beyond the Burial Tree
In My Mind I'm Standing Up
Commissioned Monsters
Tomorrow as Tribute
RelationShaping
The Claimed Body
The Human Universal Beautiful
The Broadway Machine
From Genius to Joke
Go to Every Funeral
Abandoned in Place
Miscast
The Dark Matter People
Beautiful Numbness
The Last Living American White Male
Passage Land
Technology
The One-Way Drop
No One Dies Lying
Swimming the Author
Tidal Volume
DO HARM
The Two Letters
The Black Ram
Synalosis
The Eighteen-Minute Lie
Not My Thing
The Source Code of the Self
The Off Switch
The Scientific Aesthetic
UNDERWRITTEN
Carceral Nation
Selling Saturday Morning
The Counterfeit Bargain
The Failed City
The God in the Wire
What the Light Carries
Fiction & Drama
Fractional Fiction
Fractional Fiction is a literary production methodology that transforms public domain works through systematic synthesis with contemporary scientific research. Each novel begins with a classic source text, integrates current research from peer-reviewed domains, and follows established dramatic frameworks to create original narratives that carry the weight of literary tradition while speaking to present concerns.
The series currently includes eleven novels, from The Dying Grove (mycorrhizal networks and forest consciousness) and The Held Land (Black land dispossession and inherited memory) through The Likeness (voice cloning and the machinery of fabrication), Standard Deviation (algorithmic governance and the Panopticon), and The Wergild (the African American funeral trade and the debt owed for a life) to the newest, The Disposition (the wildlife disposition ledger and the words we file people under). Explore the series →
The Disposition
The Wergild
The Likeness
Standard Deviation
The Corollary
Civility Certified
The Somnambulist's Prophecy
The Held Land
The Kinship of Strangers
The Inheritance
The Dying Grove
The Westborough Crusaders
In 1982, a sixteen-year-old wrote eight episodes of a dramatic television series about a high school newspaper, a dying boy, a bully, and the adults who failed all of them. Two episodes were produced for Cablevision, won a Cable ACE Award, and aired across the Omaha metropolitan area. The remaining six were never filmed. The scripts survived. Forty-four years later, the series becomes three novels: the year before the cameras arrive, the year they record, and the year after they leave.
Eight scripts. Two episodes. One trilogy. The characters are fictional. The feelings are not. Explore the trilogy →
The EleMenTs Series
Four disabled teenage girls discover elemental powers that defy explanation. Elle is Deaf and commands wind. Meen is blind and controls fire. Teena has cerebral palsy and moves earth. Tal has autism and feels water. Their names encode their identity: take the right letters from Eleanor, Mingzhu, Christina Sarah, and Talia, and you spell EleMenTs.
Hunted by Prometheus Applied Sciences, they must choose between hiding and fighting for a world that has always underestimated them. The trilogy follows their arc from discovery in the tunnels beneath New York City to a Senate hearing in Washington where visibility becomes either liberation or the final vulnerability. Explore the trilogy →
