He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1973, from North Carolina Central University with a MA in 1977, and from the University of Southern Mississippi with a PhD in 1983.He teaches at Georgia State University.

His work appeared in The New Yorker, Crescent Review, and Mississippi Review, Appalachee Quarterly, Carolina Quarterly, Oxford American, and Alabama Literary Review.

• “Scuff,” Alabama Literary Quarterly 6.1 (Fall/Winter 1992): 41—48.
• “Immaterial,” Forum 27.2 (Fall/Winter 1993): 22—27

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