At the Scottsdale Gun Club during ThrillerFest, with a bunch of great writers and cool people (photo by Zoe Sharp).

I am a native of Yardley, Pennsylvania, and felt the call of the tropics drawing me to Hollywood, Florida, where I now reside with my partner and our golden retriever. That love of tropical latitudes has also nurtured an abiding interest in Hawaii, as well as in what Graham Greene called "shady characters in sunny places."

Here I am at the CN Tower in Toronto, when I visited there for Bloody Words.

My fiction has appeared in numerous publications, including Verbsap, Blithe House Quarterly and In The Family, as well as winning first prize in a South Florida magazine contest. I am an assistant professor of English at Broward Community College and the author of the three Mahu books: Mahu, Mahu Surfer and Mahu Fire, as well as Steve and the Blatnicks (Xlibris, 2000).

Sitting with Christine Kling at Thrillerfest in Phoenix, June 2006 (photo by Zoe Sharp)

I have published a wide range of fiction and non-fiction in mainstream and GLBT publications, both in print and on line. My work has been anthologized in Cleis's new anthology Cowboys: Gay Erotic Tales (Cleis) and Ultimate Undies (Alyson) as well as in My First Time 2 (Alyson, 1999) and Men Seeking Men (Painted Leaf Press, 1998). I'm also the editor of the forthcoming Cleis anthology Hard Hats.

The GLBT Panel at Bouchercon 2006. Anthony Bidulka, Alex Brett, me, Caro Soles and Mark Richard Zubro.	My panel outfit: a Mahu shirt and a kukui nut lei.
Photos by Lori L. Lake

At my first reading at Books and Books on Miami Beach; the paintings behind me are by Hannah Lasky

I have written about gay and lesbian issues for Gay Web Monkey, here! magazine, gaywired.com, gfn.com and lesbianation.com. You can see examples of my freelance work at my website, http://www.tropic62.com. I am vice president of the Florida chapter of Mystery Writers of America, and a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (BA), Columbia University (MBA), and Florida International University (MFA).

Signing at my big reading at Borders in Ft. Lauderdale. Notice the kukui nut lei!

The announcement for my appearance at the Stonewall Pride Festival in Fort Lauderdale.

Feel free to e-mail me for more information about any of the Māhū books.