About Paul
Paul is an award-winning science fiction author, technology blogger, and former punk rock drummer. At age six, he saw 2001: A Space Odyssey on the big screen, which led him to a collection of Clarke’s short stories—and a lifelong insatiable appetite for mind-bending science fiction. Paul’s edgy, techno-smart stories are influenced by his career as a virtual reality software developer and the time he spent drumming for punk and alternative bar bands. He loves to strand flawed protagonists in fantastic worlds, then watch them squirm.
His General Studies degree from the University of Michigan suits his varied hobbies and interests. He published programming books, received a patent for data encryption, and was an R&D 100 Award co-recipient. Like all true nerds, he runs a web server. He has a lifelong interest in music. He has played drums since childhood, written and recorded digital compositions, and ripped his entire vinyl collection to MP3. Currently, he’s learning piano. He traveled the world to view multiple total solar eclipses. Other interests include linguistics, philosophy, genetics, cosmology, and the visual arts.
You can find Paul’s stories in Uncharted Magazine, Amazing Stories, Creepy Podcast, Sci-Fi Lampoon, Punk Noir Press, 7th-Circle Pyrite, and several anthologies, including Amazing Stories: Best of 2024, Midnight Garden: Where Dark Tales Grow, and Wild: Uncivilized Tales. His flash fiction piece, “More Than Electric Sheep,” placed first in Uncharted Magazine’s AI Flash Challenge, and he placed second in the 2022 Roswell Awards with “Dr. Harriet Hartfeld’s Home for Aging AIs.” With Linda Ditchkus, he co-edited the multi-genre anthology Without Brakes, Fingers Crossed, featuring “The Tamarisk Hunter” by Paolo Bacigalupi. He is a member of Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers and Speculative Fiction Writers.
Paul is blind from retinitis pigmentosa. He is the author of the Rubik’s Cube solution, Solve It! The Only Speedsolving Guide for Blind Cubers. His non-fiction has appeared in the Braille Monitor, and He blogs for AppleVis.com, a website for vision-impaired Apple users. His poem, “The Thompson River Flows,” placed first in the 2018 National Braille Press poetry contest.
You’ll find Paul beneath Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, sipping coffee while the snow sublimates.