His story “The New Life” was chosen as a finalist for the 2025 Iowa Review Award in Fiction, and his work has appeared or is forthcoming in Grist, Hidden Peak Press, Spotlong Review, LitBreak, Jimson Weed, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, MoMA PS1, White Columns, Artforum and other places. He was born in Altus, Oklahoma, and has a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University.

His work has been generously supported with residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Leopardi Writing Conference in Recanati, Italy, and the Albee Foundation in Montauk, New York. He received training as a writing workshop leader at the New York Writers Coalition, and is a reader at Craft Literary and Post Road.

He lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York and in the Hudson Valley, where he lives with his beloved. He has a grown daughter, and two grown stepdaughters.