about me
I was that quiet kid in the back of the class—the one with the dog-eared paperbacks and a stack of legal pads full of truly terrible stories. Since then, I’ve gotten better. Pretty damn good, in fact.
While none of those legal pads have turned into bestsellers (yet!), I’ve written a lot of content and copy for businesses from the enterprise level down to sole proprietorships; I’ve helped found, craft, edit, and design literary journals; I’ve taught writing at the college level; I’ve served as a gatekeeper for an independent publishing platform; and I’ve had my own work published by some amazing journals and curators.
In 2012, I earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing and Name Dropping under the guidance of some truly gifted writers, including John Kessel, Elaine Neil Orr, Wilton Barnhardt, and Jill McCorkle. In 2016, I was chosen to (awkwardly) read a piece of nonfiction called “220 North” for Austin’s Listen to Your Mother storytelling event.
I’ve also been a graphic designer, production coordinator, project manager, English tutor, light demolition worker, and movie theater projectionist. I’m an adoring husband, dad to three wonderfully crazy little people, dog-dad to four terribly crazy little dogs, an out-of-practice drummer, and I’m the storyteller/DM of a Dungeons & Dragons podcast called Roll.Hit.Die.
Currently, I’m on the marketing team at Moov, writing so very many words about their kick-butt financial technology.
And, like everyone else, I have a novel that’s oh-so-close to complete.
Seriously. So close.