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I was born and raised in the lush wilderness of Ohio, halfway between Cleveland and Columbus. I have always loved to read, write, and design, which led me to found Inkblots Magazine in 1995. Oedipus Press, the company I founded to publish Inkblots, became Dreamsbay Media Labs two years later and was rechristened The Dreamsbay Company in 2000. Between 2000 and 2005 Dreamsbay grew into a full-fledged creative consulting company with clients in New York, Boston, Washington D.C. and Chicago. At the moment, Dreamsbay is in something of a chrysalis phase, mostly still and unmoving until it reappears in its next incarnation (which will most likely coincide with my completion of my master's degree in 2007).

I am an ever-conflicted cocktail of styles. My design style fuses solid, rich colors and clean lines with subtle details and a touch of playfulness. My writing style aims for a modern American magical realism that's also fun to read. As for my political style, I suppose I could be billed as a near-fanatical moderate.

In addition to Inkblots, my writing has appeared in several newspapers, magazines and websites including Polaris, Gothik, Hika and {fray} and has received a few small accolades. My design portfolio includes work for The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary at Harvard University, So New Media, NerdUp, LLC, Cultural Axis Partners, The Advisory Board Company, American Health Line, Keith K. Annis Photography, RBB Systems, Inc. and The Milwaukee Theatre Collective. I am also a founding member of Tohubohu Productions, an independent film company in Washington, DC, a founding member of Untyped, a trans-Atlantic software development and consulting group, and an occasional advisor to CollaborationTown, a theatre troupe in New York City.

I have studied at the College of Wooster, the University of Exeter in England, and Kenyon College, where I received my BA in English and Philosophy in 2000. I am currently a graduate student in the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, where I am working as a Media Analyst for Henry Jenkins' Convergence Culture Consortium, focusing on the business, aesthetics and production of transmedia storytelling.