Originally from Hawaii and the San Francisco Bay Area, Sequoia Nagamatsu was educated at Grinnell College and Southern Illinois University. He is the managing editor of Psychopomp Magazine, and his work has appeared in publications such as Conjunctions, ZYZZYVA, The Bellevue Literary Review, Tin House's Open Bar, THE FAIRY TALE REVIEW, and Black Warrior Review among others. He resides in Boise with his fiancee where he teaches at The College of Idaho, and will be joining the faculty of St. Olaf College in Minnesota in the Fall of 2016.