I am currently teaching English at a university in China.

My poetry usually takes form in sporadic, inspired moments. I tend to not rewrite my poetry, as it is a way I remember who I was at a certain point of my life, and a barometer for seeing how my poetry evolves over time.

I also write a great deal of fiction. My fiction is based around a worldview called Dagan.

Dagan is a 16,000 year world-cycle that is generally original except for the period of time from 4000 BC to 2000 AD.

The timeline is subjective, and contains a possible interpretation for past events and a plausible course of future events. The Ages of Dagan are a special cross-timeline where events on Earth conflict with events happening outside of Earth, and the cycle of evolution occurs at a different rate. This is a timeline for the progression of the human species and not any other species, mythic or alien. It is merely one kind of dimension that can be used to construct a reality for media I come into contact with and by which I am inspired.

Timeline:
5000 BC: Mythic - When legends walk the Earth.
4000 BC: Family - Humanity bands together in small families, fighting for survival.
3700 BC: Tribal - Families become tribes and begin to cooperate.
3400 BC: Village - Tribes elect government and create civilization.
3100 BC: City-State - The will of One becomes the will for All.
2800 BC: Dynasty - Wealth is handed down to the generations.
2500 BC: Priestdom - The ruling class becomes divine.
2200 BC: Epic - Shields and blades are writ into the scrolls of time.
1900 BC: Metropolitan - Cities are hives of culture and suffering.
1600 BC: Kingdom - The Divine Law seeks an identity among the gods.
1300 BC: Migratory - As word is spread, those with nothing become pilgrims.
1000 BC: Warring - Civilization battles with new-found ideas.
700 BC: Sacred - The laws of God are written on the hearts of all men.
400 BC: Imperial - All men become gods.
100 BC: Political - The advent of worldwide civilization brings wisdom and treachery.
200 AD: Classic - Tranquility in the time before war.
500 AD: Fractured - Jealousy grows in the hearts of beasts over a war-torn land.
800 AD: Feudal - The resurrection of the strong and the rule of the weak.
1100 AD: Nation - The identity of rulers no longer in the divine but the self.
1400 AD: Colonial - Expansion towards the End of the World.
1700 AD: Philosophy - The rule of Reason and Science conquers the heart of men.
2000 AD: Culture - Brother meets brother on uncertain new ground.
2300 AD: Continental - After understanding comes discontentment and fixation on the ills of the other.
2600 AD: Development - After fashioning the guns of war, men fix upon the perfection of civilization.
2900 AD: Golden - The Blessed Age, known as Civilization's Most Glorious Hour.
3200 AD: Religious - The shadows, having cloaked themselves as beauty, are revealed.
3500 AD: Machine - The Ghost in the Machine, or the transmigration of the soul into empty, cold space.
3800 AD: Corporate - As mankind builds cities past imagination, the goals of a few become the reality of the many.
4100 AD: Molecular - Searching deeper into the psyche, men observe and control the smallest consequence.
4400 AD: Eugenic - With discovery and experimentation finally comes perfection, but at a high cost.
4700 AD: Sectarian - The tribes of men rummage and pilfer the secrets for themselves, uninnocent and stained.
5000 AD: Organic - The secrets of the lifestream are unfolded into the mindstream.
5300 AD: Resource - The search for Earth's deepest mysteries become the next great conquest.
5600 AD: Degenerate - Mankind's final hurrah devolves into the greed of the soul.
5900 AD: Revelatory - The End of Days marks the rebirth of new life.
6200 AD: Planetary - Man seeks new worlds among the stars, having grown discontent with his own.
6500 AD: Space-faring - The stars have been conquered finally, but the black of space provides no comfort.
6800 AD: Inter-Planetary - Each world to her own, each civilization unto the rest, sprawling in the darkness.
7100 AD: Independence - The cry of the little gods becomes a piercing scream; memories are cut, and new lands consecrated.
7400 AD: Ether - The Imagination is finally revealed to all, and the consequences become a memory to itself.
7700 AD: Alien - Life, in its many forms, has woken and shown itself to man.
8000 AD: Xenophobic - They flee from the unmen, they cringe at the monsters, but they do not stop for the box has been opened.
8300 AD: Flowering - When acceptance finally comes, all become one.
8600 AD: System - The wars over light and land blossom and break apart the newly found hope.
8900 AD: Hyper - Space is folded and collapsed, and the universe becomes a much smaller place.
9200 AD: Galaxy - The battles upward, as civilization becomes one and the fringe turns to horror.
9500 AD: Übermensch - Technology and biology have merged into one, creating new gods.
9800 AD: Universe - The finality of life is one that vanishes and disappears without a trace.
10,100 AD: Spirit - Having overcome the fleshly substance, new responsibilities are revealed.
10,400 AD: Time - An unnatural bedfellow once, and now a welcomed companion at the table.
10,700 AD: Matter - All men are terrified of their own flesh.
11,000 AD: Reality - Visions are just as likely to be true.

AGES OF DAGAN
1 DA: Ashfall (6500 AD) - The period of "the Great Burning" when humans, having destroyed their world, live with the consequences.
500 DA: Starlight (7000 AD) - After the Ashfall, it was many years until people finally began to rebuild their broken world.
1000 DA: Pax (7500 AD) - Having a budding new palette to work from, people began to construct the fundamentals of society.
1500 DA: Dreamtime (8000 AD) - Part of the contract for a new world was "the Dreaming," an era where people lived a waking life of phantasies.
2000 DA: Blood (8500 AD) - When they woke, they grew hungry, and with hunger came avarice, violence, and all the sins of the world.
2500 DA: Elemental (9000 AD) - They then discovered that a strange power lay inside them, and they opened in power like a fireflower.
3000 DA: Diamond (9500 AD) - The construction of a new society combined with strange power leads to tyranny and self-governance.
3500 DA: Shadow (10,000 AD) - After the building of mansions and palaces comes the envy of others and the spilling of darkness.
4000 DA: Outsider (10,500 AD) - When they came back to claim what was theirs, they discovered it no longer their child but a despoiled beast.
4500 DA: Butterfly (11,000 AD) - Only through the transformation of the soul were they able to transcend upwards into their fabled home.