Austin, Texas
My Poetry centers around transcendence—the eternal quest to shatter egoic illusion by rediscovering & embracing our inner divinity's ineffable infinity
My poems appear in Scarlet, San Antonio Review, Wayfarer, riverSedge, Arlington Literary Journal, & Bryant Literary Review
Uncouth Youth & Distracted In Hell are stream-of-consciousness channels in which my psyche's insecurities are explored through staged dialogues starring me, myself, & I—the Dharma Bums pilot time's cosmic wheel, shedding joyous mescaline-soaked tears reading my tales of tomfoolery
Favorite Artists
Turnover, Spacey Jane, The Wombats, Jazz Cartier, Betcha, Father John Misty, ODESZA, Dave, The Kooks, ABBA, Beach House, The Aces, Vista Kicks, Nas, Tame Impala, Kendrick Lamar, Fred again.., Childish Gambino, Sasha Sloan, Kygo, The xx, Local Natives, Explosions in the Sky, Cousin Stizz, Lykke Li, Frank Ocean, TV Girl, alt-J, Cub Sport, Young M.A, Les Sins, Passenger, Wet, Moneybagg Yo, Blossoms, The Paper Kites, Youth Lagoon, Mac Dre, The Killers, Adeodat Warfield, Camera Obscura, J. Cole, Minks, LANY, Young Dolph, COIN, The 1975, Hippo Campus, Bad Suns, Joey Bada$$, Gus Dapperton, Red Rum Club, Thunder Jackson, J Dilla, Denim Haircut
Turnover, Spacey Jane, The Wombats, Jazz Cartier, Betcha, Father John Misty, ODESZA, Dave, The Kooks, ABBA, Beach House, The Aces, Vista Kicks, Nas, Tame Impala, Kendrick Lamar, Fred again.., Childish Gambino, Sasha Sloan, Kygo, The xx, Local Natives, Explosions in the Sky, Cousin Stizz, Lykke Li, Frank Ocean, TV Girl, alt-J, Cub Sport, Young M.A, Les Sins, Passenger, Wet, Moneybagg Yo, Blossoms, The Paper Kites, Youth Lagoon, Mac Dre, The Killers, Adeodat Warfield, Camera Obscura, J. Cole, Minks, LANY, Young Dolph, COIN, The 1975, Hippo Campus, Bad Suns, Joey Bada$$, Gus Dapperton, Red Rum Club, Thunder Jackson, J Dilla, Denim Haircut
Favorite Writers
Anthony Burgess, Colleen McCullough, Irvine Welsh, Jim Harrison, Dave Eggers, Conn Iggulden, Jonathan Stroud, Raymond Feist, Virginia Woolf, Carlos Castaneda, Ram Dass, Krishnamurti, C.D. Payne, Maggie Nelson, Bret Easton Ellis, George R.R. Martin, David Mitchell, Ottessa Moshfegh, Kurt Vonnegut, Jared Keeso, René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo, David Whyte, John Koenig, Robert Bly, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robin Hobb, Brian Jacques, Lauren Groff, Ryan Holiday, David Lagercrantz, Jean Genet, Cheryl Strayed, Rumi, Brandon Sanderson, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Terry Pratchett, Zadie Smith, C.S. Forester, James Baldwin, Michael Lally, Patrick Rothfuss, Douglas Adams, Cormac McCarthy, Twyla Tharp, Hergé, Osho, Thomas Pynchon, Anne Lamott, Jorge Luis Borges, Kahlil Gibran, Maria Popova, David Sedaris, Jonathan L. Howard, Bernard Cornwell, Joan Didion, Samuel Beckett, Colson Whitehead
Anthony Burgess, Colleen McCullough, Irvine Welsh, Jim Harrison, Dave Eggers, Conn Iggulden, Jonathan Stroud, Raymond Feist, Virginia Woolf, Carlos Castaneda, Ram Dass, Krishnamurti, C.D. Payne, Maggie Nelson, Bret Easton Ellis, George R.R. Martin, David Mitchell, Ottessa Moshfegh, Kurt Vonnegut, Jared Keeso, René Goscinny, Albert Uderzo, David Whyte, John Koenig, Robert Bly, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robin Hobb, Brian Jacques, Lauren Groff, Ryan Holiday, David Lagercrantz, Jean Genet, Cheryl Strayed, Rumi, Brandon Sanderson, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Terry Pratchett, Zadie Smith, C.S. Forester, James Baldwin, Michael Lally, Patrick Rothfuss, Douglas Adams, Cormac McCarthy, Twyla Tharp, Hergé, Osho, Thomas Pynchon, Anne Lamott, Jorge Luis Borges, Kahlil Gibran, Maria Popova, David Sedaris, Jonathan L. Howard, Bernard Cornwell, Joan Didion, Samuel Beckett, Colson Whitehead
Note
Any & all celebrity mentions in my Distracted In Hell or Uncouth Youth pieces are in fictional capacities—none of my friends have yet had the decency to become famous
Any & all celebrity mentions in my Distracted In Hell or Uncouth Youth pieces are in fictional capacities—none of my friends have yet had the decency to become famous
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