He is passionate about nature and living in balance with the natural world. He was raised in the Piedmont of South Carolina—land of red clay hills, whippoorwills, and tall pine groves. His writing and photography has appeared in The Oxford American, The Missouri Review, The Naugatuck River Review, The San Francisco Chronicle, and other publications. He has shown his photography at The Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, MA, the Bromfield Gallery in Boston, and other galleries. He is currently pursuing a master’s degree in Creative Writing and Literature at Harvard University.