Welcome to my page! I work as a freelance editor, writer, tutor, and writing workshop leader. I also teach poetry and poetics at Reinhardt University and (starting in fall of 2017) at Emory University. I live in Marietta, Georgia, along with my beautiful wife, Michelle Wright, a fiction writer.
In spring of 2016 I served as Writer-in-Residence for The University of Tennessee.
Numerous universities have contracted me to teach master classes in a variety of genres, and in addition to writing poetry and fiction, I co-translate German and Austrian poetry from the Expressionist period with Martin Sheehan of Tennessee Tech University. I regularly teach popular poetry workshops in the Atlanta area. I am founding editor of Town Creek Poetry and series editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology. I find most joy in collaborating with like-minded writers and in learning of my students' literary successes.
A few specifics: My full-length books--published and forthcoming--are Self-Portrait as Late Autumn Frost (Iris Press, forthcoming), Specter Mountain (co-authored with Jesse Graves, forthcoming from Mercer University Press, 2018); Creeks of the Upper South (co-authored with Amy Wright--Jacar Press, 2016);Tree Heresies (Mercer University Press, 2015); Night Field Anecdote (Louisiana Literature, 2011); Bledsoe (Texas Review Press, 2011); and Dark Orchard (Texas Review Press, 2006). My chapbooks are April Creatures (Blue Horse Press, 2014); Xylem & Heartwood (Finishing Line, 2012); Sleep Paralysis (Winner of the South Carolina Initiative Prize, Stepping Stones Press, 2012); and The Ghost Narratives (Finishing Line, 2008). The Southern Poetry Anthology, published by Texas Review Press, now consists of seven volumes: South Carolina, Mississippi, Contemporary Appalachia, Louisiana, Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
My writing has appeared in The Oxford American, Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Poetry Review, Epoch, Antioch Review, and many other journals.
In 2016, I won Georgia Author of the Year from the Georgia Writers Association, as well as a prize from the Georgia Center for the Book that named the fifth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume V: Georgia (co-edited with Paul Ruffin) "a book all Georgians must read." I have won prizes from many literary journals, the most recent being the Terrain.org grand prize for poetry (judged by Eamon Grennan).
In spring of 2016 I served as Writer-in-Residence for The University of Tennessee.
Numerous universities have contracted me to teach master classes in a variety of genres, and in addition to writing poetry and fiction, I co-translate German and Austrian poetry from the Expressionist period with Martin Sheehan of Tennessee Tech University. I regularly teach popular poetry workshops in the Atlanta area. I am founding editor of Town Creek Poetry and series editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology. I find most joy in collaborating with like-minded writers and in learning of my students' literary successes.
A few specifics: My full-length books--published and forthcoming--are Self-Portrait as Late Autumn Frost (Iris Press, forthcoming), Specter Mountain (co-authored with Jesse Graves, forthcoming from Mercer University Press, 2018); Creeks of the Upper South (co-authored with Amy Wright--Jacar Press, 2016);Tree Heresies (Mercer University Press, 2015); Night Field Anecdote (Louisiana Literature, 2011); Bledsoe (Texas Review Press, 2011); and Dark Orchard (Texas Review Press, 2006). My chapbooks are April Creatures (Blue Horse Press, 2014); Xylem & Heartwood (Finishing Line, 2012); Sleep Paralysis (Winner of the South Carolina Initiative Prize, Stepping Stones Press, 2012); and The Ghost Narratives (Finishing Line, 2008). The Southern Poetry Anthology, published by Texas Review Press, now consists of seven volumes: South Carolina, Mississippi, Contemporary Appalachia, Louisiana, Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
My writing has appeared in The Oxford American, Prairie Schooner, The Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, Indiana Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Poetry Review, Epoch, Antioch Review, and many other journals.
In 2016, I won Georgia Author of the Year from the Georgia Writers Association, as well as a prize from the Georgia Center for the Book that named the fifth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume V: Georgia (co-edited with Paul Ruffin) "a book all Georgians must read." I have won prizes from many literary journals, the most recent being the Terrain.org grand prize for poetry (judged by Eamon Grennan).