Sequoia Nagamatsu is the author of the Japanese folklore and pop culture inspired story collection, Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone (Black Lawrence Press, 2016). Originally from Hawaii and the San Francisco Bay Area, he 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. For the moment, 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.