I teach, do laundry, and write. My screenplay, The Vessel, won quarterfinalist awards in several competitions, and my fiction has been recognized as a finalist for the Anton Chekhov Award and long-listed for The Letter Review Prize. Other work has appeared in HerStry, Pulp Poets Press, Adelaide Literary Magazine, and local newspapers. My wife, teenage son, and chocolate Lab are my greatest inspirations and harshest critics.