His multi-genre co-authored volume, Cooking with the Muse (Tupelo), won the Eric Hoffer Award, the National Indie Excellence Award, the New England Book Award, the USA News Best Book Award, and others, and was named a top pick by Bella Magazine, Foreword, and Epicurus’s Laurie’s Library, and “best of the summer” by The Chicago Tribune. Over 70 recent interviews appeared or are forthcoming in such newspapers as Epoch Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and the Huffington Post; the sites of Edible, Food52, Mass Poetry, Poetry Flash, Poetry International, the PSA, and many others; and many radio shows. Other work appeared in recent months in over 30 publications, including The Collagist, Mudlark, Notre Dame, Poet Lore, Poetry Daily, Pleiades, Posit, StorySouth, Washington Square, Whole Life, The New English Verse anthology, and The Traveler’s Vade Mecum.
