I’m the author of Those Like Us: Stories (Stephen F. Austin State University Press), You’re the Tower: Essays (Yellow Flag Press), and A Guest of the Program: Stories, which won the 2017 Iron Horse Literary Review Chapbook Competition. I am an assistant professor at McNeese State University, where I teach in the MFA program and edit The McNeese Review. My writing has appeared widely in magazines and journals including Greensboro Review, Third Coast, Brevity, Baltimore Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and War, Literature, and the Arts. I live in Lake Charles, LA with my wife and two daughters.