An attorney and former journalist, I am honored to serve as president of the Chicago Writers Association. My fiction debut, LOST IN THE IVY, a murder mystery set against the backdrop of Chicago's storied Wrigley Field, won the Writers Marketing Association's “Fresh Voices” Book Award and the Illinois Woman's Press Association's Mate E. Palmer Communications Contest. My award-winning essays on parenting and the Cubs have been anthalogized in Cubbie Blues: 100 Years of Waiting Till Next Year, Chicken Soup for the Father and Son Soul, Humor for a Boomer's Heart, and The Big Book of Christmas Joy, as well as in numerous magazines and online publications including Chicago Parent magazine, Vain Magazine, SanityCentral.com, AbsoluteWrite.com, and HumorPress.com. Currently, I am working on my second novel while my 5-year-old son tugs on my legs.
In my day job, I write disability decisions for the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) Office of Disability Adjudication and Review (ODAR), which has made me proficient with the use of acronyms.
At night and during lunch breaks, I write fiction as well as non-fiction essays about the life of a writer and father, all purely non-autobiographical. Any resemblance to me in my writings is purely coincidental.
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