is the author of the debut collection Hearsay, which won the 2014 Jean Feldman Prize at the Washington Writers' Publishing House and was a finalist for the 2015 Ohioana Book Award. His poems have appeared in such journals as Boston Review, Gulf Coast, Hunger Mountain, and Prairie Schooner. He lives in Annapolis, Maryland, with his wife and two young sons and is Professor of English at College of Southern Maryland.