All About Mary
Photo by Dave Roden
Greg is attracted to the surrealist, meta, and the potently applicable. His short stories indulge in dreamy oddities. His poetry is self-aware. As cerebral as his interests are he has no interest in escapism.
He often plays with point of view, vocabulary, and most certainly puns. He plays and plays until something is revealed to him and maybe to you.
Greg is a student of life. He puts his faith in humanity regardless of the disappointment. If he wasn’t a pacifist, he’d follow George Orwell in punching Fascists. After all, politics is only a dirty word if you refuse to educate yourself.
Interview by Laura Camby-McCaskill
Tell us a little about yourself. What are your favorite hobbies? Tell us one crazy thing about you.
As a writer, I’ve built my life around writing. I enjoy reading and I’m an active reader: meaning I underline and take notes in most of the books I read. These things have led to my monthly literature blog, On Page 42.
Crazy thing? Honestly, I’m a boring person. Sometimes I dabble in carpentry and other times I dabble in visual art. Of late, my hobbies can be boiled down to listening to podcasts like Behind the Bastards and 5-4 or listening to K. Flay and Grandson. My ears have been monopolizing my time… (continue reading for interview)
His Stories Online
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I remembered the story of the ghost. Maybe I had pissed off my grandmother, and she smashed the shelf out of anger because I didn’t go out with my friends, because I didn’t want to get over my ex.
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Food I didn’t remember eating came up. It went all over the dash. All I saw were my insides coming out and the wheel turned.
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Books seared and sopping flop off the shelves on to the damaged floor.
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Stan’s parents weren’t happy when we got married. They wanted their boy to marry a woman.
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Highlighted Accomplishments
Wells College’s Class of 1905 Poetry Prize (Awarded May 2018)
Poems accepted into the Nevermore: METRO Immersion Arts Festival (Oct. 2016)
Presented at the 2015 Bridgewater International Poetry Festival
”Getting Down,” his comedy was produced for the 2013 Second Stage Short Play Festival
Presented at Garbanzofest the First, a celebration of words (July 2012)
We’re all just trying to work out the kinks. The point of life is to make an effort at working them out.
Young Greg’s 2010 (in Williamsburg, VA) and 2012 (Garbanzofest) presentations. He was so naive back then. Look at his anxious energy. Just rockin’ that uncomfortable confidence.