Jason Baltazar is a proud Salvadoran American, originally from the Appalachian corner of Maryland. He represents the high school dropout to PhD pipeline (& is also a repentant former illustrator for the retail fashion industry). He currently teaches in the English Department at James Madison University.
He believes imagination is sacred. He wants his work to leak across borders, conduct strange rituals, and speak with a weird heart on the tip of its tongue. His work has appeared in the Best Weird Fiction of the Year anthology and he is grateful to have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net in multiple genres.
He is almost assuredly making something right now. Or looking at a bug.