About
My debut novel THE LOST SAINTS OF TENNESSE was published by Grove Atlantic and was an Indie Next Selection and an Amazon Editors Pick for Best Literature and Fiction. I am the recipient of an Emerging Writer Grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation and writing residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Eugene O’Neill Tao House, and Tyrone Guthrie Centre. Currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing, I live in the San Francisco Bay Area with my wife and children. In addition to writing, I am a bookseller at Rakestraw Books and teach creative writing.
Featured Work
The Lost Saints of Tennessee
The novel explores the fault lines in one Southern working-class family and is driven by the soulful and intrepid voices of forty-two-year-old Ezekiel Cooper and his mother, Lillian. The Lost Saints of Tennessee journeys from the 1940s to the 1980s as it follows Zeke’s evolution from anointed son to honorable sibling to unhinged middle-aged man.
