About Me

About Me

Welcome to my website. I am a Cincinnati-based writer and poet living with a severe sleep and mental disorder, and I write about personal psychotic experiences, technology, artificial intelligence, and mass surveillance. My writings have appeared in many street papers, magazines, musical compositions, museum exhibits, plays, and blogs, and were supported by grants through the Ohio Arts Council.

My poems and stories are influenced by writers and works like George Orwell, Charles Bukowski, Edward Snowden, Mr. Robot, and The Matrix — but nothing has influenced my work more than the paranoia and psychosis I experienced throughout my twenties. In 1999 I experienced a series of psychotic breaks while studying Computer Science at Boston University that left me crippled, impoverished, and at times homeless.

Over time I have been able to piece myself back together, evolving from a nomadic, unemployed alcoholic into a self-sufficient and reasonably stable individual. The combined effects of sobriety, diet, exercise, sleep therapy, surgery, and medication gave me the opportunity to live a relatively normal life despite my disabilities. A meaningful life with severe mental illness is possible.

I use AI as a working assistant — here’s how.