I’m the author of eight books, including The Tavernier Stones, a #1 Amazon mystery. My short work has appeared in The Austin Review, The MacGuffin, The Good Men Project, Boston Literary Magazine, Sixfold, and elsewhere, and has been read in public by Liars’ League, Lit Crawl, and other venues. In 2012 I founded The Lascaux Revew.

I was born in Indiana and grew up in Iowa, Kentucky, and Illinois. I earned degrees from the University of Louisville and the University of Illinois, and served in the army with the 8th Infantry Division in Germany during the height of the Cold War.

A mathematician and cartographer by training, I began my career with R.R. Donnelley Cartographic Services in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, at the time the largest custom mapping firm in the country. I have also been a caddy, a factory worker, a bartender, a chef, a jeweler, and a teacher.

My hobbies include mineral collecting, amateur astronomy, nature hiking, and drawing and painting.

My Twitter bio: Father, writer, cat whisperer, army veteran, rockhound, tree hugger, stargazer, indy voter.

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Forms of address, in order of increasing familiarity: Stephen, Steve, Fritz.

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Still alive as of 16 September 2026.