Zox
At San Diego State University, I designed my own creativity major that fused art, photography, film and writing.
Interest in experimental forms led me to Eastern philosophy graduate studies at Berkeley and, later, surrealist and beat poetry as well as film at San Francisco State University. Studying with beat poet Robert Creeley expanded my creative range.
Iconic Photographer Ed Caraeff and I teamed up to create album covers featuring large painted canvas backdrops for such acts as The Bee Gees, Leon Russell, Steely Dan, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Three Dog Night, Poco, Nils Lofgren, The Guess Who, Sergio Mendez. We also designed the Bee Gee's tour jet on which I airbrushed the artwork.
In 2021, with co-creator Cru, I made the experimental film POP UP that has now won fifteen international film festival awards. That same year, I created a music video for singer Randy Berlin. It has won seven awards at the international level.
Co-created and co-authored with CC Crown, NIGHT SURFER is a speculative novel of love and destiny.
CC Crown
I have always loved literature. My earliest memory is the tale of THE LITTLEST ANGEL. How I felt for this fictional being. By age ten, it was GREEN MANSIONS, by age thirteen A TALE OF TWO CITIES. Every creation in between inspired me, made me feel, made me wonder about existence.
My creative side encouraged me to write. Poetry was my primary vehicle in my teens and twenties. My practical side encouraged me to earn a degree. I have several in English lit.: a BA from Marquette Univ., Milwaukee, WI; an MA from Univ. of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN; a PhD in modern British lit. from Florida State Univ., Tallahassee, FL. I received awards for teaching writing and contemporary literature from both Notre Dame and FSU. Between the master’s degree and doctorate, I received an EdS from Nova Univ., Ft. Lauderdale, FL. I also studied modern British poetry at Exeter College during a summer session at Oxford Univ.
After a decade of managing acting talent in LA, I moved back to West Palm Beach, FL, where I currently reside. It is now the time in my life that I choose to write. I am hopeful this co-written, speculative novel will inspire, will make millennials think about their own world, about their own future.
