His work has been featured in journals such as The Southern Review, Bellingham Review, Yemassee, Phoebe, Tampa Review and Wisconsin Review, and he has worked as a fiction editor at Mid-American Review, River Styx and Witness. He earned an MFA degree from Bowling Green State University in 2005, and a Ph.D. from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas in 2010, where he was a Schaeffer/Black Mountain Fellow in creative writing.