At CSU, John has taught E311B: Intermediate Poetry Workshop, E210: Beginning Creative Writing, and CO150: College Composition, recently graduating from CSU's MFA program in Poetry. Before that, he was an editorial assistant at Poet Lore in Bethesda, MD, and worked as an Upper School English Teacher at the Moses Brown School in Providence, RI, earning his MAT at Brown University.

John's writing interests include the non-human world, death, mythology, and memory, his current book project exploring how death and loss can be sites of transition and rebirth, often in tandem with the natural world.

John's recent poetry appears or is forthcoming in Orion, Ecotone, Poet Lore, EcoTheo Review, North American Review, Quarterly West, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere, and has been supported with scholarships from the Community of Writers Workshop and the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference.