Austrian author, journalist and poet whose fiction has received favorable reviews in The Midwest Book Review, the Monterey Peninsula Herald and the San Francisco Review of Books. His published fiction includes A Wind Is Rising, Plastic Jesus, What Death Can Touch, Skagit, Shenandoah and La Posada, Other Stories and Poems. Fictional themes include environmental and political struggles, man's search for a spiritual home and the artist's journey toward truth and awareness.