I grew up in Queens, New York. When I was seven years-old, I discovered my first creative outlet: writing. Since many of my stories were influenced by movie imagery, it was inevitable I would go to film school.

The book that inspired me to write poetry seriously was Gabriel Garcia Marquez's densely lush The Autumn of the Patriarch. This work was an epiphany for me.

Some of my favorite fiction and poetry authors are Gabriel Garcia Marquez, H.P. Lovecraft, Arthur Rimbaud, Michael McClure, and Charles Bukowski.