He served as Assistant Professor of Interactive Media at Elon University for three years; prior to that he was a visiting professor at Duke University, where he taught a course called Digital Storytelling. He served as a creative director, designer and writer/director in various organizations during the 1990s, working with Fortune 500, music and hospitality industry clients. His creative work includes documentary filmmaking, interactive design, music composition and fiction. An award-winning writer, his work has appeared in the Paris Review, Tin House, Fence Magazine, New Stories from the South and the O. Henry Prize Stories anthology. His novel, BLACK MOON, was published by Hogarth in 2014 and was a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction.