He received his MFA from Warren Wilson College and has served as Director of Creative Writing for the Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities Academy Program of South Carolina. His poems have been published in journals and magazines including Passages North, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Atlanta Review, and Plainsong. The title poem of this collection, "Where It Begins" is included in The Sporting Muse, A Critical Study of Poetry about Athletes and Athletics. He lives in Westminster, South Carolina with his wife Sam Ramsay.