He was born in Salt Lake City, Utah and went to school in Missoula, Montana, where he studied poetry and wrote art and book reviews for the Missoula Independent. He currently lives in Oakland and teaches at an elementary school. A poetic guidebook, A Circuit of Yields: Conventional Wisdom for Giants (2015), is recently out from E.M. Wolfman Books in downtown Oakland. He collaborates intermittently with the artist Jack Metcalf on participatory one-night-only art spectacles, and cooks continuously."