Originally from Seattle, my wife and I moved to Sapporo, Japan in early 2008, where I write full time I began writing in the mid 1960s, beginning with a novel unpublished and poetry My first short story, Jonah s Birth was published in The South Dakota Review Since then I ve published fiction poetry in a number of publications, including The Palestine Chronicle , The View From Here and A Rainbow Feast New Asian Short Stories Mohammad Quayum, editor published by Marshall Cavendish Editions, Singapore, in 2011.Three of my novels The Old Man and the Monkey , Grandfather and the Raven and Bear , a novel about an unusual dog and his human friend Andy, are published by Taylor Street Publishing, San Francisco The City Has Many Faces , a novel set in Mexico City, has just been completed.