His fiction publications include Artifice, Harpur Palate, and Opium. Two of his short stories were finalists in Glimmer Train contests. His nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times, The Forward, The Texas Observer, Mother Jones, Drunken Boat, and elsewhere. His current writing projects include a short story collection and a series of essays about his cross-country travels.  

He edits the pop culture journal Frontier Psychiatrist, for which he writes about music and books. He was a story consultant for the documentary film How to Grow A Band, which has screened at the Nashville Film Festival, The Newport Folk Festival, and the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival. A longtime songwriter and performer, he now plays guitar with the Brooklyn Americana band The Randy Bandits.

He teaches writing at LIM College, and has taught at Pace University, and at a high school in Manhattan. A graduate of Yale College, he has an MFA in creative writing from the New School.