ABOUT ME

I am a journalist, poet, essayist, short story writer and novelist.  My fiction and poetry have been published in The Dublin Quarterly Review, Southern Cross Review, Black Petals, Amazing Stories and others.  "A Dwelling in the Evening Air," written in collaboration with P M F Johnson and published in Amazing Stories was nominated for a Theodore Sturgeon award. I have also written numerous articles, editorials and essays for various publications such as The Washington Post, The Santa Fean, and East West as well as book covers for G. K. Hall, a large print publishing house.
 
I have a degree in journalism from the University of Minnesota.  

I have recently finished a novel, Evaleen the Queen, a story about a young woman who starts a business during the Great Depression.  I am also working on a  collection of short stories about a restaurant.  Two of the stories have been published in Dublin Quarterly  at:  http://www.dublinquarterly.com/11/f_srector.html
  and in Southern Cross Review at http://southerncrossreview.org/59/rector.htm
 
And I write a weekly blog called Tuesday Tips for myself and others which can be found at http://www.sand1.wordpress.com

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