What do you write about?

I’m from the middle. Geographically, spiritually, generationally - the middle of the country, the middle of the story, the middle of a family that is dying a slow and spectacular death while a new one rises in its place.

They Who Feed on Shadows is my core series - the true story of my family’s estate, my mother’s unraveling mind, and the parade of predators and lost souls who wandered onto our land and into our lives. It is a love story, a horror story, and occasionally, despite everything, a comedy.

I also write fiction and nonfiction short stories drawn from the same universe, and I photograph the landscape that holds all of it - flyover country, where the land remembers what the people forgot.

Between essays, I write notes on American masculinity - what it means to be a good man in a century awash in boyhood confusion.

I hear there’s no place like home. I’ll let you know when I find out.