He currently lives and writes in Syracuse, NY where he is completing his last year of MFA at Syracuse University. His first book of poems, Slow Startle (Emerging Poets Prize 2015) was published by The (Great) Indian Poetry Collective. A chapbook of poems, Jurassic Desire (Per Diem Poetry Prize 2017) is slated to be published later this year from Per Diem Press. Some of the themes that he works with are grief, death, exile, animals, memory, love, and madness, and he considers his poems to be small private responses against general human forgetfulness. He likes cooking, travel, music, & marvelous realism. Currently he is steeped in Swedish poetry beyond Tranströmer. His poems have appeared in Prelude, Wildness, Rattle, Vinyl, EVENT, Literary Hub & was recently translated into French for Europe Revue. He was a 2016 Norman Mailer Poetry Fellow and recently won the Joyce Carol Oates Award for poetry.