An Ohio native, he has a Ph.D. in English and Creative Writing from the University of North Texas. His stories have appeared in WarpLand, Women in REDzine, Mandala Journal,Connotation Press, African Voices Magazine, SnReview, The Writer’s Bloc, and The Hampton University First-Year Writing Textbook. The Butterfly Lady,his first novel, won the ForeWord Firsts’ Winter 2013 debut fiction award.