His essays have appeared in Seneca Review, Crab Orchard Review, New Delta Review, Fugue, and Indiana Review, and his fiction has recently won the American Literary Review fiction award, the Laurel Review fiction award, and been printed in Keeping the Wolves At Bay: Emerging American Writers--an anthology from Autumn House. He is the recipient of a NYFA Nonfiction grant and an Ohio State Arts Grant in nonfiction.