A graduate of Ithaca College, he is also a two-year veteran of Cornell's Creative Writing Workshop.
Sleepwalking in Paradise, a San Francisco novel about old money, the new economy, and the Second Coming, was published in June 2014 byVox Nova, an imprint of Numina Press.
From March 1, 2012 to November 26, 2014, he mailed 1,001 postcards with a hand-inscribed original haiku on it to randomly selected recipients. He currently publishes the Haiku Scout Newsletter, which every week collects haiku from social media into a single newsletter and emails it to subscribers.