Three strands of life have woven together in me over a very long period. First, by education, I've had a decades-long career in archeology/anthropology. That career came together with my earliest driving need to create art. These two strands blended in several well-recognized illustration series of aboriginal rock art in Texas for research field archeologists. And I've wanted to be a writer since the age of fifteen. It was an epiphany. The writing urge was stoked with a master's thesis, a doctoral dissertation, several archeological reports, magazine articles, short stories, theatre reviews, dance reviews, and gallery reviews. The Fractured Universe is my first successful work of longform fiction.