Originally from Virginia Beach, Ron wrote his first poems in high school and college in Indiana in the 1970s.  Ron studied Creative Writing at Indiana University and City College of San Francisco; and Studio Art and Geographic Techniques at San Francisco State University (2013).  Ron tookpoetry more seriously after befriending The Beat Hotel author, Harold Norse, in San Francisco in the 1980s.  He workshopped scores of early poems with “Hal” and, more recently, with Clive Matson and Neeli Cherkovski.  Ron has tried his hand atplays and novels and composed numerous art history and urban geography essays.  His Honors paper—The Labyrinth of Irene de Bohus—concerning behind-the-scenes events during the creation of the Pan American Unity mural—resides in the Diego Rivera Special Collection at CCSF.  Ron has exhibited several artworks in Friday Night exhibitions at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum; as well as 111 Minna Gallery.  His poems reflect his interests in the environment,ancient world cultures, geography (exterior/interior) and love and its frustrations. From 1996-98, he published poems monthly in The Slant, a Marin County tabloid. More recently, he has appeared in Beatdom, The Brooklyn Rail and over a dozen anthologies in the USA, England, France and Italy.  Ron reads on several online forums and in-person around America.