Growing up in “Stephen King Country”, Alan has long dreamed of becoming a best-selling author (or at least getting a novel published). In the meantime, he teaches at the University of Maine where he has been on faculty for over a quarter century.
After getting his M.A. in Creative Writing there, he simply never left. He teaches courses on writing and literature, including topics such as monsters, the apocalypse, vampires, and (yes) Stephen King. He recently received his MFA in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast program at the University of Southern Maine. He is still working on that elusive first novel.
