M. was formerly a child in upstate New York and later a young adult in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he earned his bachelor’s degree in creative nonfiction; gender, sexuality, & women’s studies; and children’s literature from the University of Pittsburgh. Returning to the University as a graduate student, they earned their master’s degree in library & information science, specializing in metadata & cataloguing, community-centered digital preservation, and critical librarianship.

Currently, they live in rural midwestern quiet with their wonderful partner and three cats. He can be found somewhere making art and things out of words, reading, climbing rocks, or tracking book challenges as a contracted news editor for the Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy, the official journal of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF).