He received his BA from the University of Southern Colorado and his MFA from the University of New Mexico. His first collection of poetry, Friday and the Year That Followed, was the winner of the 2005 Rhea and Seymour Gorsline Poetry Competition and was published by Bedbug Press in 2006. His poetry has also appeared in Acentos Review, Border Senses, Copper Nickel, Many Mountains Moving, PALABRA, Poet Lore, War, Literature, & the Arts, Washington Square, and other journals. He is currently working on his second collection of poems.