I have a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from The Iowa Writers' Workshop and a PhD from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, with additional study in writing and Buddhism at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. I also have a Master of Divinity degree from Meadville Lombard Theological School. My latest book, Raging for the Exit: A Commonplace Book, is a correspondence in poetry with philosopher and theologian Steven Schroeder. I have recently published four novels and thirteen books of poetry, the newest titled They Played for Timelessness (With Chips of When). I am on the editorial board of the Virtual Artist's Collective. I serve the Unitarian Universalist Association on the Commission on Social Witness. I am Senior Minister at First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis.