His work was selected as a finalist for the 2025 Iowa Review Award in Fiction, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Washington Square Review, Pangyrus, Grist, Hidden Peak Press, 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 received support from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Edward F. Albee Foundation, and the Leopardi Writing Conference. He was selected as a participant in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop summer program, the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, the One Story Writers’ Conference, and the New York State Summer Writers Institute. He trained as a writing workshop leader at the New York Writers Coalition, and is a fiction reader at Craft Literary and Post Road.

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