Senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Falmouth University, Adrian, Originally from Canada, he moved to the UK in 2011 for the MA at Baths Spa. He has since completed a PhD at the University of Exeter, where he also taught, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge.
He is the author of the forthcoming novel Bruise, which is about the crisis of identity a prize fighter experiences when his career is derailed by injury. He is also the author of approximately twenty short stories in significant journals and magazines in Canada, the US, the UK, and Europe (EVENT, Queens' Quarterly, Pithead Chapel, Riptide, the Cornish Short Stories anthology, etc.). Those short stories have earned him Best Small Fictions and Pushcart nominations, as well as a places on university curriculum and, strangely, the Danish National High school curriculum.
He has critical chapters in academic texts with Routledge and Athabasca University Press, and journal articles in Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature.
His practice-based and critical research interests include class and gender in contemporary long- and short-form literature, especially literature involving sport, particularly boxing.
