About Me

The first thing most people want to know about their editors is their education. I have three bachelor’s degrees from the University of Colorado Boulder in Linguistics, Classics and Italian (Summa Cum Laude). I am also a member of Phi Beta Kappa. I then earned a master’s degree in Italian from Middlebury College. I don’t have any formal training in English or Creative Writing, but I read a lot and had experience in academic writing before I began as an independent author. I wrote my undergraduate thesis about translations of Dante’s Inferno into American English, and during my time in Italy I wrote a paper in Italian about the oppression of linguistic minorities in the Alto Adige during Fascism.

As for me, I lived most of my life in Boulder, Colorado, right underneath the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. I moved to Italy for two years after my undergrad. The first was for my master’s, and in the second I taught English in Lombardy. I met my wife there before I moved back to Colorado where I write as an author and editing for a small publishing house, Saint Bridged Vineyard Press. If you’re interested in what I’ve written, check out my author page.

During the latter half of 2020, I began to study programming and learned a bunch of technologies, from web oriented things like JavaScript, React, Vue and Angular, programming in the form of Python, Swift, C# and a little bit of Unity and how to use Illustrator (web icons and the main page background are my own creation). My work can be seen on my portfolio.

Quick note: If you are interested in having me work on a website for you or program something up, please contact me by email (first name period last name at gmail dot com) or by the contact form. We will then work out details such as cost and what type of work you want.

If you wanted to know why I got into programming: my goal from the beginning was to find a simpler career path for myself than writing. I am not a gregarious man, a social one, nor do I seek to shove my books in anyone’s face. Nor am I good at writing a blurb, especially because I find advertising and marketing myself tedious So, naturally, being a shut-in, I gravitated towards something else I could do entirely on my computer: programming. I had learned some programming at a young age and so knew there were some things I didn’t want to do, namely anything that involved C, C++ or Java (JavaScript, that I do really like, has almost nothing to do with Java). I like to work on things whose impact I can see right away and things where it doesn’t take a great deal of concentration to figure out what I’m doing. Hence Python and web stuff.