He specializes in English-Canadian, Anglo-Caribbean, and African Diasporic literatures, and has published repeatedly on Black Canadian literature and culture in academic journals and books. His first novel, entitled Soucouyant (Arsenal Pulp, 2007), was nominated for eleven literary prizes internationally, and translated into German and French. In spring 2014, Transition Magazine (Harvard) published an interview on his development as both an academic critic and fiction writer entitled "Straddling Shifting Spheres," as well as an excerpt from his novel Brother, forthcoming from McClelland and Stewart.