my first books were a set of science encyclopedias my uncle kept in our country house in Arkansas. Growing up I hit bookstores for anything that piqued my interest (for example, Issac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delaney, Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Bishop, Nikki Giovanni, Carlos Castenada, Pablo Neruda, Joseph Campbell, James Joyce, Agatha Christie, Wole Soyinka, Alice Walker, Robert Anton Wilson, Spider Robinson, Roger Zelazny, Harlan Ellison, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Wanda Coleman, Zora Neale Hurston, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Theodore Sturgeon, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ishmael Reed, Anne McCaffrey, Alexander Dumas, Ben Bova..).
My poetry writing ranges from the political to the erotic to the introspective. My fiction lies in the realm of speculative - somewhere between dark fantasy, erotic horror, science fiction and the supernatural.