Placed in the Top Ten of the Pnagolin Review Poetry Prize 2019; https://thepangolinreview.wixsite.com... About half of my life has been spent in various parts of Pennsylvania. Most of the rest has been spent in New Mexico, California, Virginia, South Carolina, and Germany. My career path has been bi-vocational; I am a Lutheran pastor and Army chaplain (Retired Reservist with veteran status) and educator on secondary and post-secondary levels. I wrote a lot of poetry when younger, then I took a 20-year break and resumed around 2002. eLectio Publishing released my first book of poetry, "Places and Times" in April 2015. "Accents" is my second poetry book, available on Amazon KDP since February 2018. This is thematically my best work. "Gemini", my third and mystical book, came out the same month from Broad River Books. "Saluda Reflections" was published by Finishing Line Press in July 2018. Working with my creative partner, award-winning artist Carol Worthington Levy, I have two books of ekphrastic poetry. "A Village Remembered" is on Amazon KDP since November 2019. "All in the Family is on Blurb as of October 2020. My first novel, "The Botleys of Beaumont County: came out on Blurb in September 2021. It is a literary fiction novel.https://www.blurb.com/b/10799783-the-... Currently, I live in the Midlands of South Carolina with or near my family.