Background
Standard grew up in Houston, Texas.
Standard grew up in Houston, Texas.
He graduated from the Kinkaid School of Houston in 1990, and after high school he attended Occidental College, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in 1994, and continued his studies at the University of California obtaining a master"s in Professional Writing in 1998.
His second book, Water & Power, was published by Agincourt Books. His poetry and criticism have appeared in several United States. anthologies, and two international ones. His work appears in Boston Review, The New Review of Literature, The Washington Review, Aufgabe, Interim, Fence, Rain Taxi, New American Writing, Fence, Non, Ribot, X-Connect, Epoch, and Rosebud.
He co-edited the literary journals Rhizome with Evan Calbi and Ribot with Paul Vangelisti.
He is the non-fiction editor of The New Review of Literature.
He is an independent journalist, a free-lance writer, and a contributor to CounterPunch.