Background
He was born in San Francisco and grew up in California, Germany, and Colorado.
He was born in San Francisco and grew up in California, Germany, and Colorado.
He graduated from Vanderbilt University with a creative writing degree.
His first full-length book of poems, Torched Verse Ends, appeared in 2009 from BlazeVOX Books. He edits the online journal Anti-, co-curates the Observable Reading Series, and serves as a contributing editor for River Styx. He previously edited The Eleventh Muse for the Poetry West organization in Colorado Springs, and works as a Certified Professional Résumé Writer.
He lives in Saint Louis.
His second full-length book, The Royal Nonesuch, was published in 2013 by Spark Wheel Press and won the Devil"s Kitchen Reading Award from Southern Illinois University. His writing has appeared in New England Review, The Journal, Crab Orchard Review, Verse, Beloit Poetry Journal, Barrow Street, Pleiades, The Laurel Review, The National Poetry Review (where he won the Laureate Prize), and Verse Daily.