Grew up in upstate New York, worked on a survey crew in Montana, taught English in Japan, lives and writes in Seattle. Influences include punk music, haiku, Montana bars.

Past Glory: 2006 Jack Straw writer, 2x Seattle Poet Populist nominee, Burning Word co-founder, 2008 Words’ Worth curator, Snow Monkey editor, Richard Hugo House board member and past president.

Ravenna Press publishes his poetry: Punk Poems (2005). A History of Guns in the Family (2008). Graffito (2011). “by Land…” (2015). 1977 (2018).