Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Curt spent his formative years in Davenport, Iowa and Renton, Washington before returning to his roots in the Queen City. Growing up on a steady diet of his parents’ LPs, Curt began hoarding vinyl around the age of 12. He discovered Pavement’s Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain a few years later and has been a lost cause ever since.
Curt graduated with honors from Xavier University in 2002, receiving a BA in Comparative Literature and Electronic Media. After winning grants to work on his graduate thesis in Venice, Italy and Paris, France, Curt graduated from the University of Cincinnati with an MA in English in 2006 and with an MS in Business Administration: Marketing in 2008.
A published poet, cultural critic, screenwriter, photographer, graphic designer, and journalist, Curt’s work has also been printed within the pages of The Athenaeum, The McMicken Magazine, CinWeekly, Portfolio, PAUSE Magazine, UC Magazine, Milk Money, and The Communiqué. In the early aughts, he received a Telly Award for his work as a videographer on the Cincinnati Art Museum promotional video, “What’s Cool at the CAM.” More recently, he received the Gold Medal for Excellence in Feature Writing for a Series by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District V for his feature in the May 2009 issue of UC Magazine entitled “Medical musician uses voice to heal.”
Curt has served as the Advertising Manager and Public Information Officer for the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music since 2007. He shares a Zodiac-sign with Bob Dylan, bears a vague resemblance to Steve McQueen, and has a terrible addiction to coffee, comic books, and spaghetti westerns. He lives somewhere on the planet Earth.
