About
BIO
For thirty years, I worked as a television producer/writer/director, travelling across North America and Europe to produce science documentaries, arts specials and a TV movie. Working for the long-running CBC-TV science series, The Nature of Things, I received numerous international awards including a Gemini and a Gracie. More importantly, these productions expanded my understanding of the world around me and what it means to share a collective humanity.
Later, I launched a parallel career as a professor serving, variously, as a Lecturer, Program Chair and Associate Dean. As holder of a graduate degree in interdisciplinary fine art, I lectured extensively on media aesthetics, screenplay writing and documentary production. I published and presented papers at international arts and media conferences, including in Berlin, Budapest and Paris, and served on juries for the Writers Guild of Canada and the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television. Currently, I am a Professor Emeritus from Ryerson University (now the Toronto Metropolitan University).
Today, as a professor emeritus, I have turned my attention to creative writing. My first published short story and novella collection, One Way Ticket, won the Oakville Arts Council literary award, while other published works have appeared in anthologies including The Literary Connection, Volume IV and various magazines. I know it is late to become an author. Publishers prefer young authors who they can build their own careers on, in a very difficult and competitive market. Despite the odds, I press on. A Painting to Die For is my first novel.
