I’m a fiction writer and educator from the American West.

I was born in Southern Utah, among epic landscapes and complex histories that continue to shape my life and work. I hold an MS Ed from Bank Street College of Education and spent seven years as a classroom teacher — developing project-based curriculum and excessive enthusiasm for fractions — before earning an MFA in Fiction from Johns Hopkins University.

These days, I live in Oakland, CA with my big, gay family and am hard at work on a short story collection about the American Sublime. You can find my fiction in Gulf Coast, New Ohio Review and The Masters Review.

If you’d like to talk about writing or teaching, please get in touch!