“I get to wishing half the stories I told were true, and the other half weren't.”

I aim for a stark, searing honesty, even when honesty means admitting the past has gone soft at the edges. When memory thins out, I make do. That is the work.

What Others Have Said...

"Underneath the whiskey there’s a great poet here." - Willy Vlautin, author of The Night Always Comes, Lean on Pete
...well-marinated package is deep southern soul, attempting release through proclamation , memory, and thrashing at the unknown." - Dan Raphael, author of No Word for When
"...he can make the sin shine like his own Kentucky moon. You have to have been broken to fix things the way he does.” - Dennis McBride, author of Killing the Mockingbird