My fantasy novel Lumen is available for sale in local bookstores and on Amazon.com at LUMEN.
An urban fantasy grounded in the hopes and fears of today’s world.Beşeri Kent–ex-elite soldier, expert spellcaster–just wants to heal people. But in his country of dual-souled shapeshifters, Beş is a threat, a defective being who can’t remember his other-soul much less control its transformation. His best friend Taner Ayvin is the charmed one, an eagle-souled do-gooder who won’t stop speaking out for the rights of the oppressed. When Kesin Hayali, government spy, warns them that they’re being unjustly hunted for treason—by her—the three of them are thrust into a dangerous conspiracy.
I have published several articles in support of the nomination of the Newark Earthworks for World Heritage status as part of the Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks.
World Heritage for all vs. golf for a few, Newark Advocate, 21 August 2022.
Want a better community? Be awestruck by the Newark Earthworks. Newark Advocate, 28 June 2020.
It’s time to prepare for Earthwork tourism. Newark Advocate, 18 May 2020.
I wrote and produced the Teaching@Newark newsletter to promote excellence in teaching on the campus in my administrative role as liaison to the University Institute for Teaching & Learning from 2017-2020.
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- Gather Us In: A UST Legacy of Civil Discourse, co-authored with Joe Horak, is a reflective essay uniting our personal and professional interests, published in our college magazine (2010)
- EUNAMUS Policy Brief #3. Striking a Balance: How national museums can contribute to a socially cohesive Europe was written to present final recommendations to policymakers from the European National Museums project, an 8-nation European collaborative (2012)
- EUNAMUS Report Summaries of the nine research reports compiled by the project (2012)
“…and the reason why I’m sitting/here writing this, is that I’m trying/to make this thing./I am shy to name it./My father didn’t like words like “soul.”/…I am trying one way and another/all words — So it’s made out of words, is it?/No. I think the best ones/must be made out of brave and kind acts,/and belong to people who look after things/with all their heart,/and include the ocean at twilight.”—Ursula K. LeGuin, last blog post