Jason Sebastian Russo was born in Yonkers and started writing on Twitter. His work appears in The Southwest Review, Hobart, Forever Magazine, and beyond. He’s toured and recorded with Hopewell, Mercury Rev, and Pete International Airport, among others. He holds a dual-genre MFA in fiction and poetry from Bennington Writers Seminars, was their Twelfth Residential Teaching Fellow in 2024, and a winner of the Pekearo Memorial Scholarship. He earned his Summa Cum Laude Bachelor’s in Cultural Studies during Brooklyn's COVID-19 lockdown and is ferociously pro-state funded education in all forms. Visit jasonsebastianrusso.com for visual, audio and language art work samples. Follow him on social media: @retsoor.