Biography
R.M. Dolin
Author of five novels, two nonfiction books, and a collage of poems, short stories and essays; including American Hikus and six word short stories.
Dr. Dolin earned his Mechanical Engineering PhD from Purdue University in Design Optimization and continued his academic pursuits at UC Berkeley in Decision Theory. His professional career combined research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and teaching graduate Mathematics at the University of New Mexico.
You may be wondering how an engineer became a writer/poet. . .better though, to ask how a poet/writer managed to survive as an engineer. . .
While his writing career is burgeoning, Dr. Dolin has achieved an even more essential element of successful storytelling, living an interesting life. After years on a rural South Dakota reservation he was sent off to work as a Black Hills ranch hand in his early teens. Dr. Dolin later tried his hand at rodeo bull riding and commercial plumbing before deciding life would get easier if went to college. In addition to being a nuclear weapons engineer at Los Alamos, Dr. Dolin supported homeland security, including POTUS Secret Service events, serving on the US Senate Border Security Task Force, the DOJ Anti-terrorism Task Force, the US Attorney’s Human Trafficking Task Force, and the White House Pandemic Planning Team. Dr. Dolin started New Mexico’s first commercial distillery, is a licensed pilot, trains wilderness search and rescue K9s, attended a culinary institute in Provence, France, rides a Harley Heritage, and travels internationally – next trip a month in Morocco. While not widely known, Dr. Dolin is the person responsible for the TSA scanning technology deployed in airports, which he introduced to DHS after a terrorist plot was uncovered to simultaneously blow-up multiple commercial aircraft in flight using liquids smuggled aboard the aircraft. You wrote about this story, but that book’s been banned.
Fiction and nonfiction
A sampling of novels and books
When a gifted engineer’s technology is inadvertently sold for weapons, his guilt drives him to isolation in the New Mexico wilderness. A two novel series.
Two strangers share a park bench while dissecting their lives and the hardships they’ve endured. A story told through dialogue.
A group of retired scientists are about to launch a virtual coup but local matters keep causing distractions, like saving Sympatico from human traffickers. A three novel trilogy.
A real time assessment of the COVID crisis using real science by a real scientist.
Poetry
I use poems for character development in my novels. Imagine the challenge of reducing a 4k novel chapter into a one page poem. . .
Dr. Suss was good at rhymes, I’m not, it gets in the way of the raw emotions poetry should explore.
I love the notion of the haiku format, but can’t be creative in it’s constrictive framework, so I invented my own genre.
It’s fun to take a story idea and reduce it to six words. Hemingway started this fascinating genre.
A curated collage of novel & book chapters, poems, essays, and recipes I’ve posted.
Contact Information with Caveots
If your a publisher/producer, let’s talk.
If your proposing an adventure, I’m in.
If you need help backing up your trailer, it’ll cost you a six pack.
If you’re planning a romantic dinner date, let’s chat, I too am a romantic.
If you’re calling because I didn’t call, please leave your number. . . I’ll probably call.
If this is about last night, it wasn’t me. If you’re certain it was me, it was that way when I found it.
If you’re a debt collector, this contact information is no longer valid.
These are my stories and I’m sticking to them. . .
I am also stoically social:
