After studying the novel for fifteen years and because of his love for the creative arts and humanities, beginning in 2005, he pursued additional postgraduate education in these areas. He went on to earn an M.F.A. in Creative Writing in 2007, and an M.F.A. in Digital Cinema Production in 2008. He also earned an M.Phil. in English and Comparative Literature and a Ph.D. in English Literature and Creative Writing in 2019.
While learning his craft, he studied with Professor Stephen Gill, an Indo-Canadian, internationally renowned literary scholar-critic, literary fiction novelist, short story writer and poet, whose creative works embody multicultural themes. Stephen Gill was also a nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He has also studied critical and creative writing with Professor Graeme Harper, an internationally renowned Australian scholar and a novelist of genre fiction.
In past years he attended the national conferences of the American Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) in Chicago, Denver, and Washington, D.C.; the largest writers’ conference in the United States of America. He has also attended numerous literary author readings and discourses at the AWP conferences, regional writers meetings, and literary symposiums by educational institutions that have presented writers like Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Russo, Jhumpa Lahiri, Edward P. Jones, Sandra Cisneros, Michael Chabon, Luis Alberto Urrea, Colson Whitehead, Ron Rash and others. Moreover, he has witnessed the induction ceremonies for authors such as George Singleton and Ron Rash at the South Carolina Academy of Authors.
In 2019, he was bestowed the honor of Fellow of the Institute of Arts and Letters, London. In 2023, he was bestowed the Highest Honor of Di Accademico Ordinario by the Accademia Tiberina, Rome.
He is a bibliophile, a connoisseur of cinematic films, and a student of history. He enjoys fresh and saltwater fishing, working with horses, sheep, goats, and chickens on a farm. He also enjoys gardening and raising Anatolian Shepherds.
A Hell Uncertain is his debut novel; the first book of The Urban Trilogy. It was released August 12, 2025.
The sequel to his debut novel and the second volume in The Urban Trilogy entitled: Bound For Perdition, will be published in February, 2026.
