(Born in 1958, Boulogne France) writer, artist, musician, published Les Maléfices du fardeau d'Atlas, his first book of poetry in 1985. He has written five novels, including THE BIG JIGGETY (Xlibris, 2005). Also, a number of short stories, and his verse has been published in Volumes 14, 15, and 16 of The Poet's Domain. His writing and, on occasion, art work have found a niche in Happy, Kumquat Meringue, Kinesis, The Quill, The Urban Age, Voie Express USA, The Threshold and The Writer's Round Table. A former journalist, he studied poetry at the University of Montana under Richard Hugo and edited a literary magazine in Brunswick, Me. He currently earns a living in Washington, DC as a French-English interpreter/translator and receives royalties from the textbook Voie Express USA