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Biography

My seventh collection of poetry, The Place That Is Coming to Us, will be published in 2025 by Broadstone Books. My first fiction collection, Transit, was published in 2022 by Unsolicited Press

 

My other books include the formal verse collection The Killing Tree, light verse collection Catalogs for Food Lovers, and the essay collection Dowsing and Science. My individual poems have appeared in publications including The Awl, Harvard Review Online, Nimrod, and Tar River Poetry.  

 

 

Educated at American University, the University of Chicago, the University of Houston Creative Writing Program and Carleton University, I have received scholarships to attend the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Bucknell University Seminar for Younger Poets and the West Chester University Poetry Conference. I have also additionally received Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

I live with my wife and rescue animals in Washington, DC, and I am available for lectures, readings and signings.