He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Michigan, where he received a Hopwood Award in Poetry. His collaborative projects include performance with Anne Carson, visual art with Ben Fife, queer scholarship with David Halperin, and music with the band Sissy Spaceship. He has taught literature and creative writing in rooms as varied as cafeterias in juvenile hall to senior centers to college classrooms. He curated (Un)Touchability: HIV and the Queer Community on World AIDS Day in 2007 in San Francisco. He rings up groceries at Rainbow, a worker-owned collective. In the fall of 2008, he will begin an appointment as Professor of English and World Literature at Pitzer College in Claremont, CA.