[1] Born in Wales, he moved to Canada with his family in the early 1980s.
[1] His short story collection Sputnik Diner (Random House, 2002) was nominated for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award.
[1] Its first story, "Plane People", won Prairie Fire's Long Fiction Competition as well as a Western Magazine Award,[1] and "Lessons from the Sputnik Diner" was a shortlisted finalist for the Journey Prize.
[2] He was the editor of the literary magazine Event, published by Douglas College, from 2006 to September 2010.
The band have released two albums, 01 (2006) and El Ángel Exterminador (2010).