Steve Shear has been writing poetry for over ten years - visit his website to find out more. He is also a portrait and figure artist and sculptor, having spent two summers at the Charles Cecil Studios in Florence, Italy painting and drawing the human figure; several years at the Boulder Art Academy studying anatomy under L.V. Davis; and more than five years in the SF Bay Area under the tutelage of Jean Packard, a graduate of the Chicago Art Institute. He also painted with Boris Shoshensky, a Moscow educated painter who exhibits in Colorado; and studied sculpture under Valentin Okorokov, another Moscow educated artist, who has exhibited in Denver and Boulder, Colorado as well as in Vail, Aspen and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

While in Colorado, he exhibited at the Zwolf gallery in Denver and the Gallery Sovereign in Boulder. He was also represented by the Boulder Gallery on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder. More recently, he has had a number of exhibits in Tucson, Arizona.

Steve and his wife, Susan, collaborated on The State vs. Max Cooper, a courtroom play in which the audience serves as the jury. They produced and directed its premier production in Tucson to three full houses. 

His L&L Dreamspell Books and Anthologies:

The Trials of Adrian Wheeler