I won the PEN Prison Writing Award and Slice Magazine’s Bridging the Gap Award; my writing has appeared in Guernica, Joyland, The Masters Review, The Missouri Review blog, and The Offing, as well as the anthologies Prison Noir (Akashic Books) and Words Without Walls (Trinity University Press).

Living in Pittsburgh but got my MFA from the Writer’s Foundry in Brooklyn (had to commute by bus every week). I'm the editor of The Pittsburgh Anthology (Belt Publishing).