Who I am

I teach and do research in Medieval Scandinavian literature, with occasional excursions into folklore and other fun fields.  When I have some free time, I write poetry and short stories.  Occasionally I actually submit something to a journal, and more occasionally I have something accepted.  My short story “The Giant and the Cathedral” and poem “On Going to See the Blue Whale”, published in ’01 and ’02 in Fables e-zine, are no longer available, but my sonnet “A Stone Age Man Confronts his Son” may be found in the Summer ’07 issue of the Rose and Thorn Journal.  My sonnet “The Cabin and the Stars” is out in the December ’11 issue of Ideomancer, and I have three poems out in Everyday Poets (“Amateur Astronomy“,“Sketches of Leaves”, and “The Waves on Lake Vättern”) with another coming in May (I submitted it late, but may have forced their hand by titling it “Rainy Day in May”).  At the moment this website is nothing more than a non-academic creative outlet, but I hope you will find something here that you like.