 At the Eiffel Tower, Paris, June, 2023
My creative life has evolved from film to photography to writing. While a student at the University of Michigan I wrote and directed a feature length film, Pamela and Ian, in which the characters grapple with the fact that they are shadows of light and that the film must end.
After college, I created a collection of black and white photographic portraits of men and women who artfully played with gender roles. This collection of photographs, called Shameless, was exhibited in galleries in Berkeley, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Zurich. I also created a series of photographs for the book Men Loving Men. I turned to writing with the publication of my first novel, Unmentionables, which was awarded the bronze medal for Gay Fiction at the Book of the Year awards at the American Library Association conference in New Orleans on June 25, 2011. In addition to writing novels, I also write plays. I recently spent several semesters studying at Chicago Dramatists under the brilliant tutelage of Will Dunne in his Scene Shop class. 
I'm married to painter James Stephens whose wonderful paintings can be seen at JamesStephensArtist.com
This is a photograph of us in front of one of James's paintings at a recent exhibit of our work, which included his paintings and my photographs, as part of the "Mighty Real / Queer Detroit" biennial exhibition in Detroit in June, 2024. |