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All About JohnI've just completed my second novel, a murder mystery that explores the truth behind the photograph of a crime scene taken by a young war photographer and its connection to the complex discriminatory attitudes toward homosexuals during the 1940s. I graduated with my BA from Davidson College, MA in literature from Bread Loaf School of English, and a MFA in fiction from GMU, where I served as Executive Editor of Phoebe. Currently, I teach English to sophomores, juniors, and seniors at Flint Hill, a college preparatory school, outside of Washington, DC.more about John
All About John
I've just completed my second novel, a murder mystery that explores the truth behind the photograph of a crime scene taken by a young war photographer and its connection to the complex discriminatory attitudes toward homosexuals during the 1940s. I graduated with my BA from Davidson College, MA in literature from Bread Loaf School of English, and a MFA in fiction from GMU, where I served as Executive Editor of Phoebe. Currently, I teach English to sophomores, juniors, and seniors at Flint Hill, a college preparatory school, outside of Washington, DC.
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1. Sometimes when I go for a run, I pretend that I'm being chased.
2. When I was young, my Great Aunt Margaret wanted me to be a painter. Instead, I decided to become a writer who writes about visual artists.
3. I don't think reason and emotion are mutually exclusive; however to work together, they must respect one another.
4. I love film scores, because I can pretend that I'm in a movie, and even if it's a scary movie, it can be SO much better than reality.
5. My favorite writers are all women and (possibly) gay men -- Iris Murdoch, Margaret Atwood, Somerset Maugham, Shakespeare . . . My favorite writer is a (possibly) gay woman -- Virginia Woolf.
6. I love murder mysteries. My heroes are Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. Patricia Highsmith is my favorite suspense novelist.
7. I believe family is about love rather than blood relations. Families are those persons who we love and who love us.
8. I teach high school sophomores and seniors. I derive a great amount of hope and inspiration from my occupation, but I'm rarely as happy as when I'm alone writing.
9. I deeply respect Emerson's writings. Spiritually speaking, I'm something of a Transcendentalist, but with my own twist.
10. I once made a short movie with a friend called "Sanguine Complexity." I make an appearance as a vicious murderer in drag a la Michael Caine in Dressed to Kill. It was soooooo bad.
About My Novel - Dodging and BurningDodging and Burning opens with a letter from Bunny Prescott to her estranged childhood friend Martha Bliss. A disturbing crime scene photograph of a beautiful murdered woman named Lily has arrived with no return address, and Bunny wants to know if Martha sent it to her. The horrifying yet seductive photo was taken fifty-five years ago by Jay Greenwood, a young man to whom they both had intimate ties and who first showed them the image in 1945, weeks before the end of the war. The mysterious package sets both women on a journey into the past, compelling each to tell her version of what happened that summer.read more about Dodging and Burning
About My Novel - Dodging and Burning
Dodging and Burning opens with a letter from Bunny Prescott to her estranged childhood friend Martha Bliss. A disturbing crime scene photograph of a beautiful murdered woman named Lily has arrived with no return address, and Bunny wants to know if Martha sent it to her. The horrifying yet seductive photo was taken fifty-five years ago by Jay Greenwood, a young man to whom they both had intimate ties and who first showed them the image in 1945, weeks before the end of the war. The mysterious package sets both women on a journey into the past, compelling each to tell her version of what happened that summer.
read more about Dodging and Burning
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