I'm a freelance writer based in Narberth, PA, just outside Philadelphia.

My first book, Secrets of Serotonin, was published by St. Martin's Press in 1996 and went through eight printings. A revised, updated edition was released by St. Martin's in April of 2008. My latest health-oriented book, Good Food Tastes Good: An Argument for Trusting Your Senses and Ignoring the Nutritionists (SpringStreet Books, October 2007), is about the complexity of food versus the simplicity of the standard nutrition advice. It gives the evidence to say that taste is a highly evolved and fundamentally reliable guide to nutritional quality—much more reliable, in fact, than reading labels.

I've also written a science-based novel that combines natural history with literary history. It's called A History of the Novel in Ants, and that's exactly what it is, with Picaresque Ant, Manners Ant, Postmodern Postcolonial Ant, and more.

I write and edit news articles, review articles, conference proceedings, and patient/physician education materials for a variety of clients and publications ranging from consumer print media to physician and patient organizations to pharmaceutical companies.