*Author earned a BA in English from the University of Georgia; MFA in creative writing from the New School; PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center. *Professor at Wesleyan University *Received Irving Howe Prize for Best Dissertation Involving Politics and Literature (2007); Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Process Space Artist Residency (2015); mentor for the Poetry Project’s Jerome Foundation funded Emerge—Surface—Be program (2018-2019) *Author of the poetry collections My Gradual Demise & Honeysuckle (1994) and Servicing the Salamander (1998); co-author of The Haiku Year (1998)—a project requiring him to compose one haiku a day. *Author’s novels include Outline of My Lover (2000), named an International Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award; Branwell: A Novel of the Brontë Brother (2006); and Once You Go Back (2009). *Published a collection of short stories, They Change the Subject (2005), and a trilogy of prose pieces, Your Body Figured (2008).