Born in New York City, Ed taught college there and moved to San Francisco in 1970. Associated with the Julian Theatre, he led a new playwright’s workshop program for seven years. Ed has lived in Santa Cruz since 1983. For many years he wrote and recorded a monthly piece for an NPR affiliate feature, First Person Singular, and currently does so for KSQD-FM.  Currently, Ed is writing a novel about jobs with the working title, Abel’s Grit; his main character holds to support a life in the arts. A produced playwright (12 plays, 20 runs in NYC, San Francisco, Berkeley, Panama City, and Asheville, NC) Ed scripted a documentary on cooperative enterprise “Together We Can Make It Happen,” which aired on PBS-TV in Boston. Over a 30 year career in the theatre, he has staged 120 productions in the U.S and England. Published fiction includes his novel, A Map of the World (With All Faults) in 2019, and shorter works:  https://www.bookshopsantacruz.com/trinity (prizewinner), Porter Gulch Review, short stories 2015-2019 (http://www.cabrillo.edu/publications/portergulch/).

Two short stories appear in Santa Cruz Weird, an anthology of short fiction (2018).