About Me

Applied mathematics has been the through-line of my career—aerospace engineering, management consulting, private equity. Three decades where the math had to be right, work that rewarded a certain kind of pattern recognition. In my personal time, I turned to the liberal arts: reading classics, history, literature, philosophy, social sciences, and artistic pursuits. 

I come to fiction because I want to render the worlds I've walked with the precision they deserve. Mathematicians in literature tend toward tortured genius or social misfit. Women in professional realms are often cast as distorted caricatures or shallow cut-outs; nothing like the people I called partner, or that mentored me, or that I mentored, or I served as a client.

I live in the Pacific Northwest, where the novel is set. After I achieve my word quota for the day, I'll fish, or ski, or explore with my two Australian Shepherds--Alta and Metolius, or chill with the finest soul I've met in this world, my wife Julie.

Wanderlust on Adderall is my debut.