originally hails from the industrialized Texas Gulf Coast. His poems have appeared in Ecotone, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the Martha Meier Renk Fellowship from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he completed his M.F.A. and helped lead poetry roundtables with the Wisconsin Prison Humanities Project. He lives in New York City.

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