hails from the industrialized Texas Gulf Coast. His poems have appeared in Ecotone, Gulf Coast, Prairie Schooner, Colorado Review, and elsewhere. He was a recipient of the Martha Meier Renk Distinguished Graduate Fellowship in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he completed his M.F.A. and helped lead poetry roundtables with the Wisconsin Prison Humanities Project. He now lives and works in the Barton Creek and West Bouldin Creek Watersheds (Austin, TX).

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