Fiction
(Forthcoming Simon & Schuster, July 2025)
Demon Copperhead and The Outsiders meets Sons of Anarchy in this gripping debut about a group of young men dragged into a drug-running operation.
It’s 2009, the height of the Great Recession. Best friends Eddy, Cueball, and Jesse are fresh out of high school and wild at heart, but the economy is in the dumps. With jobs scarce along Florida’s Space Coast, they join a furniture moving company run by Cueball’s father, a gruff ex-con biker who’s supposedly retired from the fast life. But when a mysterious old boss arrives in town, the payload is switched out, as the young men are coerced into shipping a new designer drug up the East Coast. (Read more)
Poetry
(Autobiomythography III)
The culmination of over a decade of work and research, Operating Systems moves between various traditional and experimental forms, and contains what is probably my most well-known poem, “Ode to the MQ-9 Reaper,” which found mention on the front page of The New York Times. Though it appears as the third in the series, this book was finished last.
(Autobiomythography IV)
A book that obliquely documents the fictional life of an experimental film director turned poet.
(Autobiomythography V)
Written during a single day’s traveling by train from Venice to Florence after receiving news of a horrific series of deaths, Soffritto troubles the boundary where personal grief and invented memory meet.
(Autobiomythography II)
My second collection of poetry arrived from a period of near-constant traveling, which included visits to Tokyo, South Africa, Taiwan, Norway, Shanghai, Los Angeles, New York, Belize, the Pacific Northwest, Chicago, France, Germany, Florida, et al. When writing these very short poems, I forced myself to slow down and pay closer attention to things, only writing down a poem after I had it completely formed in my head.
(Autobiomythography I)
My first book, and the first of the Autobiomythography series, the manuscript is not too far removed from the thesis I turned in to complete my Master’s Degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. The manuscript was a Finalist for the Yale Younger Poets Prize, the National Poetry Series, and the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award.
Anthology
Co-edited with poet Jason Koo, this anthology brings together 170 different contemporary voices from the New York borough of Brooklyn, the first book to do so. A best-seller that remains taught in university classrooms.
Nonfiction
Infinite Record: Archive, Memory, Performance
A five-year international effort, this book is an art object and true labor of love. It is the resulting book-form archive of talks, symposia, art pieces, dances, essays, and so much more, as brought to fruition by Editors Karmenlara Ely & Maria Magdalena Schwaegermann of the Norwegian Theatre Academy / Østfold University College, along with help from academics/artists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel (Germany), and York St John University (UK). I spent years helping make this book a reality, and many, many hours editing it and helping along rewrites in several languages.
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