hails from the industrialized Texas Gulf Coast. His poems have appeared in Ecotone, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. He was a recipient of the Martha Meier Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Poetry 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 works for an Episcopal church in Austin, TX and is Poetry Editor for The Mockingbird Magazine.

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