A freelance editor, writer, teacher, and musician, he teaches literature at Fordham College of Liberal Studies. Author of The Apparition in the Glass: Charles Brockden Brown’s American Gothic (U. of Ga. Press). Work published in Poetry, Yale Review, Shenandoah, South Dakota Review, Antioch Review, Southern Humanities Review, New Orleans Review, New York Times Book Review, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review.