Born March 23, 1969, in New York, NY; married Gudrun Celia Johnston; children: Maya Calypso, Sage Anthony. Education: University of Maryland Baltimore County, B.A., 1992; University of Maryland College Park, M.F.A., 1996. Addresses: Agent: Sloan Harris, International Creative Management, 40 W. 57th St., New York, NY 10019. E-mail: prideofcarthage@yahoo.com.

HISTORICAL NOVELS

• Gabriel's Story, Doubleday (New York, NY), 2001.
• Walk through Darkness, Doubleday (New York, NY), 2002.
• Pride of Carthage: A Novel of Hannibal, Doubleday (New York, NY), 2005.

• Acacia: Book One, the War with the Mein, Doubleday (New York, NY), 2007.

Contributor of short stories to Gumbo: Stories by Black Writers, and to periodicals, including Bartleby, Catalyst, QWF, and Staple: New Writing. Pride of Carthage has been published in Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish; Acacia has been published in French, German, Italian, Polish, Russian, and Swedish.