Jason Baltazar is a proud Salvadoran American, originally from the Appalachian corner of Maryland. He is a high school dropout and first-generation college student with a PhD, and a repentant former illustrator for the retail fashion industry. He wants his writing 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, He is currently at working on a couple books, if you’re into that kind of thing.