He's currently an assistant professor at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, where he teaches Shakespeare and Renaissance literature. He enjoys work as an editor at Strange Horizons because he can comment on style without having to give out grades! He's been a lover of speculative fiction since reading The Hobbit at age 10, and Tolkien remains a favorite author. In his copious free time, he is an avid folk dancer. He is not a writer of fiction, at least not yet.