He studied English at SUNY Fredonia and is an MFA Candidate in Creative Writing at the University of Arkansas. He writes, presents, and talks about queerness, grief, and surviving trauma. His poetry has been nominated for the 2014 and the 2015 Best of the Net Anthology, was selected as the Runner-Up by Patricia Smith for the 2017 Epiphany Literary Journal Spring Contest, and has appeared in Muzzle Magazine, Vinyl, Rust+Moth, Red Paint Hill, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. He currently works on the poetry side of submissions at The Arkansas International, and has been a contributing editor at Arcadia Magazine and a poetry reader at Spry Literary Journal.