I started learning to read when I was 3 years old, and could not get my fill of it. Books were a huge part of my life, and still are to this day. From a very young age, I wanted to be part of that special group of people called "authors." I wanted to harness the power of the written word and speak through pages the way so many had spoken to me.​

 

My first attempt at writing was in 5th grade. I jotted down a scene from a fantasy story that materialized into a full-length novel by 10th grade, which I planned to make the first of a trilogy. Time, experience, and honesty made me realize how deficient this manuscript was, but I found an enjoyment and an escapism in writing that I wanted to keep pursuing.​

 

I attended Kansas State University and in 2019, I earned a B.A. in English with an emphasis in creative writing. My first book, Robyn and the Hoods and Other Stories, is a self-published compilation of short stories I wrote for my English classes.​ A series of life circumstances put my writing hobbies on hold for the next couple of years, but in 2023, another opportunity presented itself. During this time, my reading habits had shifted, and my choices of fantasy fiction and sci-fi were replaced by Catholic theology, spirituality, and biblical studies. Also, for a year or so, my wife and I had been researching the Catholic traditionalist movement that we had grown up in. I was given an opportunity to contribute an essay to the volume Faith in Crisis, wherein I present the case that the current crisis of faith in the Catholic Church has much deeper cultural and spiritual roots than what the traditionalist movement had taught us to believe. I had the great privilege of publishing my work alongside some of the most well-known voices in the world of Catholic academics and apologetics, such as Jimmy Akin, Tim Staples, Dr. Richard DeClue, and others. Faith in Crisis will be published by Wipf and Stock in 2025.​

 

Later in 2023, I decided to compile the information my wife and I had gathered about the traditionalist movement into a full-length book, Altar Against Altar: An Analysis of Catholic Traditionalism, which was published by En Route Books and Media in June 2024.​

 

I hope to explore any number of possibilities with my future work. Perhaps I will dust off my first manuscript and revise it. Perhaps I will write a series of sequel stories to my first compilation. I am deeply entrenched in the study of the traditionalist movement and hope to contribute further to the topic. I also have been given an opportunity to write a memoir related to some significant events in my wife's family history. The roads are many, and I cannot wait to travel down each of them.