He lives in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. He has published three books of stories, the most recent of which, Siege 13 (Milkweed) won the 2012 Rogers Writers Trust of Canada Fiction Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2013 Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. He has published over fifty short stories in journals such as One Story, Fiction, Agni, and Granta, and won an O Henry Prize in 2011.