[2] He has worked as an editorial assistant for the Prairie Schooner, and is also co-founding editor of Milkwood Review.
His work, out of the tradition of Neo-Romantic and Open-Form 20th Century Poets such as James Dickey and Allen Ginsberg employs a Whitmanesque line to explore the limits of empathy and communication in American Life.
This tragedy led to his exploration of nonfiction prose as a means of expressing and critically engaging with the grief and recovery experience.
His prose style is alternatively lyrical, raw, self-aware, and analytical in the tradition of writers like Viktor Frankl and C. S. Lewis.
He has since remarried and lives with his wife, Rachael, and son, Darius, in Huntington, WV.