A collection of short fiction, non/fiction, is forthcoming from Edge Books in 2007. Poems and stories have appeared/will appear in dozens of publications, including TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, New Orleans Review, American Scholar, and Prairie Schooner, in the anthologies The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, and Best American Poetry (2006), as well as aboard metrobuses in Northern Virginia. He has received grants and awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County (MD), the University of Michigan, and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He has also worked as an editor-in-chief, international economist, farm hand, tae kwon do instructor, reporter, theatre arts educator, and disabilities professional.