About Me

Atlanta-born writer and veteran who learned to read at three (made the Atlanta Journal-Constitution for that one) in a household where Mama started our town's first library. Grew up on Lewis Grizzard and Celestine Sibley's columns, which taught me the art of Southern storytelling early on. Served with the 82nd Airborne in the Gulf, then found my voice writing for the Arctic Light up in Alaska. Got schooled by Kurt Vonnegut himself (still pinching myself about that one), and spent time learning from Atlanta's poetry scene alongside Aqiyl Thomas and Viggo Mortensen.

After trading the pen for the pulpit (summa cum laude, if Mama's asking), I came back to writing with renewed purpose. Now I'm crafting tales that folks seem to like arguing about—especially "Offerings for Arianrhod"—and building the Jakub Riser series with "Black Ghost Knife Fish" and "Softly She Waits For Winter." Between novels and the random short story, I keep the Southern literary tradition alive with my columns "Gravel Road Blues" and "A Pocket of Small Things."

Previous works collected in "Rhyddau" and "Almost Half," though the stories keep coming faster than I can write them down.

Current home: Aethem Press, Austin, Texas.

Credentials: Society of Professional Journalists member, Michigan State University journalism alum, and perpetually chasing the next story that needs telling.