About
I am a Lecturer of English at Kennesaw State University. His memoir, Getting Better, is published by Running Wild Press, and I have been published in His View from Home, Brain Injury Hope Magazine, The Purple Nail, and Oddball Magazine, and many others. My writing has been selected for the 2025 Red Clay Writer's Conference, the 2025 Chesapeake Writer's Conference, the 2025 Midwest Dramatists Conference, and the 2025 Columbia All Write Writer's Conference. My writing textbook, No One is More Right Than You, is set to be published by Cognella in August of 2026.
Featured Work
Getting Better
On October 7th, 2007, his senior year of high school, Will Carter leaves work and heads home to get sleep before re-taking the SAT the following morning. Three weeks later, he wakes up in a hospital bed, a trach in his throat, covered in IV’s and scars, confused, and with a terrible pain in his head. He learns that he has suffered a brain injury and stroke and that he is waking up from a medically induced coma. Will takes what scraps and bits he has of his memory to reclaim his story, as he takes the reader on a harrowing 7-month journey from his car accident and coma to his recovery and return to high school. Will fights the internal battle of wanting to be the person he was before and accepting who he is now. He must fight to graduate high school, re-learn how to walk, and re-discover how to live his life again. He must strive to figure out what getting better really looks like. Will must come to terms with God and fight to hold onto his faith. He must finally come to see getting better as not something physical but something emotional, personal, and spiritual.
