He has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Spalding University, Louisville, Kentucky. His personal essays are published in Platte Valley Review; Seeing Red, Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins; World of Indigenous North America; The Muse; and Dragon Poet Review. He will read “Puxa Vida” a short selection from is memoir-in-progress, Love in the Time of Civil War; and “Koroviev and Behemoth” from his novel-in-progress, 18 Lives: Johnny Quest and Mitt Romney.