He received his MA and Ph.D. from Pacifica, and serves as Adjunct Faculty at Pacifica (teaching in the Masters in Counseling program). His research and poetry embrace evanescent experiences, and the via poetica that gives them voice and form. His poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals, including Poetry Quarterly, Psychological Perspectives, Soul Fountain, Ship of Fools, the Aurorean, Spindrift, Avocet, and Psychopoetica.