Jason Baltazar is a proud Salvadoran American, originally from the Appalachian corner of Maryland. He represents the high school dropout to first-generation college student to PhD pipeline (& is also a repentant former illustrator for the retail fashion industry). He is currently an Assistant Professor of English 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. He is grateful to have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best Small Fictions, and Best of the Net in multiple genres. You can find his work in Boston Review, Quarterly West, Passages North, and elsewhere.
He is almost assuredly making something right now (including a couple of books, if you’re into that kind of thing). He wishes you well.