He hails from a long line of state-hopping migrant laborers, apartment complex gangstas, and woods lovers, and has published work in journals ranging from Evergreen Review to North American Review. He is a co-editor of Sarabande Books’ Appalachian literary anthology Red Holler and the literary editor for the international, post-punk fashion and literature magazine Black & Grey. As well, he is the father of the seventeen-month-year-old, Francesca Lu, who has recently invented a hybrid dance style incorporating Tai Chi and dancehall hip-hop, and Vivianne, a five-year-old who is training to be an astronaut princess.