He is a founding member of the 365th Writers’ Avoidance/Support Group. He won the 1995 Eudora Film and Fiction Festival Award for Poetry; he has had poems published in the Saturday Afternoon Journal and a short story in 14 Hills. His novel The Lulu Journals: The Somewhat Life of the Reluctant Roughneck was a semi-finalist in the 2009 Faulkner-Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.