BOOKS

Set in 1950 in the rural Midwest, and inspired by real events, this gripping novel explores what happens when an African American railroad repair crew is dropped into a tiny, tight-knit farm community. Will frictions build to an all-too familiar American tragedy, or can tensions be overcome in that uniquely American way, with balls and bats and a field of green?

This is a strange book. Travelogue and parody of travelogue, it's a work that calls into question the very concept of nonfiction.  Pretty funny in places.

Somebody has to be the world's foremost grain elevator poet. These lyrics hover around my father and his life's work, in all its pastoral and deadly detail.

Young adult biography of a true American hero.

My first book, published in 1995 by Bendall Books. Out of print now, but I still use photocopied pages from it every time I teach fiction writing. Used copies available on Amazon.