short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in in The Atlantic Monthly, Saturday Evening Post, Confrontation, Westerly, Best New Writing 2017, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, The Long Story and other publications. His fiction also won an Editor's Choice Award 2017, Runner-up in Great American Fiction Contest, and a $10,000 Ohio Arts Council Award for Individual Excellence.
His unpublished novel was a finalist for the Washington Writers Publishing House 2017 contest and won an Honorable Mention in the 2017 Leapfrog Press Contest.
He has an MFA (George Mason U.), an MA in English (Wright State U) and an MA in International Affairs (Ohio U.) He served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sri Lanka, a setting for his novel and many stories