I am a poet, novelist, publisher and researcher. I live at The Ledges in Leverett, MA. I was born in Framingham, MA. I have a B.Sc. in English from the SUNY New Paltz. Creative Writing (SUNY Potsdam), Philosophy of Art (New School), English Literature (SUNY). I have studied under Paul Engel, James Dickey, Anais Nin, I have interned in Washington D.C. with two prominent private organizations. In the first as an analyst on National Healthcare Planning and a researcher on Defense Analysis and the Private Sector. I did the discovery for a major trial in two hours. I have worked in the Neurobiology Laboratory MBL, Neurobiology Laboratory at NIH at MBL. I have worked on presidential and congressional campaigns. I have attended the Asian Scholars Conference, Washington, D.C., the Science and Education Conference, Detroit, Michigan and the Science and Religion Conference, Turku, Finland. I am a member of the Boston Athenaeum. I have designed my modern cottage in the style of a Russian dacha. I have served on the Board of Health. I have visited my Native-American friends at the Seneca Nation twice. I have traveled and camped in Europe. I have visited Russia. I have been over the railroad tracks from Rouen, France to Jalalabad, Kyrgyzstan. I have traveled and camped in Central Asia five times, with some time spent in Southern Siberia. I was at the ancient city of Otrar in the Kyzyl Kum desert. I was seen on a television program in Boston that dealt with Comparative Religion. I have appeared on national television in the Former Soviet Union three times. I took part in The International Peace Walk, Kazakhstan. I was a member of the Fifth Avenue Peace Parade and the Clamshell Alliance. I have written seven novels. I have read my poetry at Harvard and at St. Marks and it has been published in Kenya, Kazakhstan and the USA and a number of volumes can be seen at Poet’s House in Manhattan. I have received grants from the PEN American Center and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. I have met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in his private office at the Foreign Ministry Building in Moscow.Specialties: I have been to Eretz Yisroel twice. I have studied at Yeshiva in Grenoble, France, Milano, Italy and Bnei Brak, Israel and at Morristown, New Jersey. I have recorded an album of Hasidic Nigguns. I have worked in the vineyards of Western New York State and in the apple orchards of Southern Kazakhstan. I have written four novels the first of which is entitled THE WORLD BEFORE SEPTEMBER. My poetry has been published in Kenya, Kazakhstan and the USA.