He studied at the University of Maine, University of New Brunswick, and the University of Delaware. He lived for ten years in San Francisco. Since 1993, he has lived in Puerto Vallarta.^[1]

• 1987 American Book Award

• All Fall Down. Seismograph Publications. 1987. ISBN 978-0-932977-32-8.
• The Book of Awakenings
• Michael Mayo, ed. (July 1986). Practising Angels: A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry. Subterranean Co. ISBN 978-0-932977-31-1.

• Ed. Ishteyaque Shams, ed. (2004). New Perspectives on American Literature. Atlantic Publishers & Distributors. ISBN 978-81-269-0393-1.