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 creative writing workshop leader at the New York Writers Coalition.

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