His work was chosen as a finalist for the 2025 Iowa Review Award in Fiction, and 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 received support from the New York Summer Writers Institute, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Leopardi Writing Conference, and the Edward Albee Foundation. He received training 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 in the Hudson Valley, where he lives with his beloved. He has a grown daughter, and two grown stepdaughters.