He posts travel essays and social commentary regularly in his newsletter Postcards from the End.

[3][4] In 2005, he was a David Wong fellow at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich, England.

[10] He is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House[11] and Blood and Soap, and five books of poems: All Around What Empties Out,[12] American Tatts, Borderless Bodies, Jam Alerts, and Some Kind of Cheese Orgy.

His first novel, Love Like Hate, was published in October 2010 and won the Balcones Fiction Prize.

[13] Translated into Italian by Giovanni Giri, it is published in Italy as Elvis Phong è Morto.