His work explores the societal expectations of religious beliefs, masculinity and femininity, and generational conditioning between Northern and Southern cultures of the United States. He's been a featured poet at The Poetry Street Reading Series in Riverhead, NY and his poems have appeared in Columbia Journal, TSR: The Southampton Review, SALT Journal, Deep South Magazine, OF ZOOS and elsewhere. With the help of the Distinguished Travel Award, he will attend the prestigious Tin House Poetry Winter Workshop in Portland, Oregon, where he will submit a portion of his thesis, a collection of poetry titled "All-American Boy", to be critiqued and work closely with other talented contemporary poets like Ada Limon, Matthew Zapruder, and Kevin Young.