Ken's writing is forthcoming or has been published in a wide variety of journals such as South Hall Literary Magazine, NonBinary Review (+ Zoetic Press's podcast 4LPH4NUM3R1C ), Horseshoe Literary Magazine, Synkroniciti Magazine, Thimble Literary Magazine, Last Leaves, Book of Matches, Panoply, Iris Literary Journal, Ripples in Space, Pilgrimage, Sport Literate, Watershed Review, Coffin Bell, Haunted Waters Press/SPLASH!, The Piltdown Review, The Offbeat (poetry prize winner, selected by Heid E. Erdrich), The Texas Poetry Journal, Writer's Bloc, Connections, and Texas Books in Review, and anthologized with Graveside Press in Soul, JayHenge Publishing in AI, Robot, Wicked Shadow Press in Apocalyptales: Judgment Day,  MindWell Poetry in We Don't Break, We Burn, South Broadway Press in Thought for Food, Coffin Bell in Coffin Bell 2, and in Arachne Press's An Outbreak of Peace. Ken's work has received multiple nominations for prizes such as Best of the Net and the Pushcart, and he holds an MFA from Texas State University, where his manuscript, Carnival of the Taken, won the McCormick thesis award, and an MA from Salisbury University. He has earned as an adjunct, cage fighter, pizzaiolo, and warehouseman.

 

When not busy with family or writing, Ken also participates in community theater. Inspired by his son's experience with performance, Ken has had roles in theater productions in the Texas Hill Country with the Chamber's Theater Company in Buda, Texas, as part of the IMAC (Inspired Minds Arts Center) 24 Hour Play festival, and he has a role as the Sheriff in City Theater, Austin's upcoming production of Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful, with Guest Director Tracy Arnold. Additionally, Ken has recorded a voice part for the urban fantasy-horror podcast "100 Handed." Beyond the arts, Ken is also an accomplished grappler. He is a 2-time National Judo Champion and a 2-time National Sambo Champion, and he has placed in or won many Judo, Jiu-jitsu, and Sambo tournaments.