Nah, that’s too long a story.
So:
Writer/editor for hire. Southern California (with a bit of Arkansas). Universities. Short stories. Jesus. Radio. Architecture. Family (1 wife, 3 kids). Baseball. Comic books. Ben & Jerry’s.
John has an M.A. in Philosophy of Religion and a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from Biola University, where for ten years he was Director of Student Communications, and where he has also been adjunct faculty for several years in the “great books” program.
For the last 25 years, John has written professionally, mostly in the field of higher education (you know, colleges and universities), including: Narrative non-fiction, feature stories, speeches, news and press releases, curriculum and training materials, policies, procedures, user documentation, employee and student handbooks, and scripts for podcasts. He is presently ghostwriting a book. He has also edited book proposals, dissertations, blog sites, and scripts for podcasts and short films.
He has a broad range of interests, from classic literature to pop culture, music and history and art, politics and philosophy and poetry, sports and architecture, business and media, theology and comic books, and more beyond that.
Just recently he has begun writing fiction (primarily short stories) and by all accounts he’s having great fun doing it.
Despite little to no musical ability, John also pretends to sing lead in a blues-rock band called Shoddy Corona, which performs only once per year (and rehearses even less often). So if you missed them, well, there’s always next year.