I am from Dundalk in Ireland. I taught at several different universities in the United States, including Villanova University in Pennsylvania, Wake Forest University in North Carolina and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. I tutor on the creative writing DLMA.

As I writer, I began in poetry and have recently gravitated towards prose fiction. I have published five collections of poems, a football memoir and a Gothic novella. A second novel, We Are Not in the World,  is due from Doubleday in February 2021. I am interested in the relationship between narrative and time. I am interested, also, in the space between poetry and prose. My most recent poetry collection, Live Streaming, includes a fragmentary prose collage about my late father.