He received a Master of Arts in drama from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the Dialectic Society.
A severe congenital heart defect limited his physical exertion, and led to his death soon after the appearance of his second published work.
In an interview in the "New Voices" series produced by WUNC, Liner humorously contrasted himself with the "druidism" of poets who seemed to celebrate only uninhabited nature.
Discovering immortality in the midst of a Nazi death camp, Dr. Faustwitz sets out to avenge evil by killing God.
Through this journey, Liner explores every aspect of sense, conscience, science, technology, culture, language and nature to delve even more deeply into humanity than into the depths of space.