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My poems often study the boundarylessness of the human body, and how it exists at the nexus of history, place, and individual experience. I believe each poem works independently to prod, question, doubt, declare, observe, or confess.  Cornel West questions, "How do you generate an elegance of earned self-togetherness so that you have a stick-to-it-ness in the face of the catastrophic and the calamitous and the horrendous and the scandalous and the monstrous?" To his list I might add, "...and the mundane and the petty and the random and the heartbreaking?"

My creative process integrates a praxis of cross-disciplinary arts, experimentation, and play. I paint, take photographs, and tinker with carpentry as ways to think with my hands, to meditate. The work turns into poems. 

I am an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where I teach poetry, hybrid writing, and literary editing and publishing. 

I have an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maine Stone Coast program, and an MA in literature from Eastern Washington University.