m b stevens . . .

Micro-mini Bio

I took a BFA and had a number of gallery shows of painting and sculpture in Houston. Then I worked through an MA in philosophy on a teaching fellowship at the University of Houston. During a stint working with government documents, I taught myself programming and got a job as systems analyst at research consortium. I wrote real-time and image analysis software, developed graphics pattern recognition algorithms, worked with neural networks, and wrote a structured computer language to control experimental laser tables.

I love unique objects and spaces. This is a room in the home that my wife and I built with our own hands in rural Texas. (Yes, that's a big painting on the ceiling.) I also built much of the furniture. The table below is made of native Mesquite and Ash. We built the house on a hill; on a clear day we can see twenty miles out our front door.

I was an avid rock climber in my 30s. I went to International Alpine School in Boulder, and have climbed in Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and Mexico. This is me on the Petit Grepon in 1982. I no longer climb, but still do strength training.

People sometimes think that since I live in central Texas, near the homes of the Bush family, I must be a republican and a fundamentalist. I am not a republican, and am highly skeptical of dogma and the supernatural. I don't believe in flying saucers, either, even though they appear in my story Molly of Tortuga. I also reject radical relativism (post modernism, in some quarters) and metaphysics. I enjoy the company of rational people, cats, and microscopes.

I now divide my time between web design, programming, and making unique jewelry pieces.

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