His collection of poems entitled Starship Tahiti won the 2012 Juniper Prize for Poetry and was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in March. He is also the author of a chapbook of poems titled Houston Gothic (LaMunde Press, 2007) and his poems have appeared in many places, including Brilliant Corners, Nano Fiction, Pebble Lake Review and Hunger. A native of southern Maryland, he taught for three years at an alternative school on Rikers Island. He lives on the South Side.