I grew up in Montreal and studied at McGill.

I have written three novels – Sons and Fathers, The Art of Being Lewis, and The Great Goldbergs – and the award-winning poetry collection Catullus’s Soldiers.

My poems and essays have appeared in various Canadian journals and newspapers, including Literary Review of Canada, Toronto Star, and the Ottawa Citizen.

In my fiction I explore the unpredictable journeys we take to understand the truth about others and ourselves, and the lifelong struggle to become who we are. My poems are often about love and marriage, fatherhood, and death and art.

I divide my time between Ottawa, where I live happily with my wife Kara and our lovely, rambunctious children, and my imagination.