I was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1976 and moved to the Melbourne-Palm Bay area of Florida when I was one, after my father quit the popcorn factory to rejoin his family along the Space Coast. My father's side of the family were mostly firemen and police officers and my mother's side were coal miners from West Virginia, but both sets of grandparents worked in some fashion for the space industry--NASA, Boeing, Martin-Marrietta, Harris Corp. As a child I watched the Challenger explode overhead, and watched the whole area turn desperate and violent as the layoffs began. I worked odd jobs ranging from stacking newspapers at Gannett News Service on the graveyard shift to scrubbing pots at Bennigans to writing articles and interviewing punk and rock bands for music magazines. At 19, I moved to North Carolina and took up acting and banking, attending UNCG after a year to secure in-state tuition. While at UNCG I won a few poetry contests and scholarships and started interning at the Greensboro Review and editing the International Poetry Review while still an undergraduate. Afterwards I attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop in Poetry and taught undergraduate courses, editing novels the year after graduation before moving to New York, where I worked as a freelance editor for advertising agencies. In 2007, I published my first book, Autobiomythography & Gallery, through Brooklyn Arts Press, and began working as a Director and curator for GONORTH gallery. Now I find myself working on many different projects, fiction and poetry, art in different media, while traveling as much as possible and trying to put in my time at Housing Works, a non-profit helping people who are homeless with HIV/AIDS.