I was born and raised as the middle child with four sisters and one brother in a split level house on the edge of Omaha's suburban expanse.

I left Nebraska almost as soon as I was old enough to drive and after years of roving, I settled to finish my undergraduate degree in English and Philosophy at Hunter College of the City University of New York. I then transferred from the UES to midtown to complete a Ph.D. in American Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. From 2004-2011, I taught first-year composition across the City University of New York system and spent my summers chasing waves or motorcycling across the continent. After finishing my doctorate, I headed West, and from 2011 to 2015, I developed courses such as Writing for Science and Technology, Writing for the Visual Arts, and Multimedia Writing as a Unit-18 Lecturer at the University of California Santa Barbara.

In 2015, I returned to my roots as an Assistant Professor in the Goodrich Scholarship Program at the University of Nebraska Omaha (UNO). At UNO I helped inaugurate the Nebraska Post-Secondary Prison Education project and was a member of the Office of Latino/Latin American Studies.

In 2019, I published my first book Power-Lined: Electricity, Landscape, and the American Mind with the University of Nebraska Press. This monograph examines the cultural history of overhead wires from Morse’s telegraph to high-voltage transmission lines.

In 2020, family responsibilities brought us to my wife's hometown of Segovia, Spain. Weeks before the pandemic struck, I was awarded a 2-year Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship with the GOT Energy Talent program the University of Rey Juan Carlos. My project was titled, WIRESEED 360 (Weaving Innovative Research and Public Engagement: Smart Energy, Science Education, and Dissemination of 360° Content). In two years of partnership with the Ciberimaginario Research Group I published five first authors articles and more than 22 YouTube videos.

While my recent research and writing centers around energy social sciences and humanities, my academic interests and creative publications are spread across the map. I've published work about floral codes, clean waves, and Jorge Luis Borges. I have written about, and with, prison typewriters and continue to correspond with a number of incarcerated individuals in the U.S. To fight climate injustice, I want to help rewire power grids and power structures. At the same time, I want to pause, enjoy, and continue to work with aspiring writers and vulnerable communities to channel some of the timeless, universal energies at our disposal.