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

They can typically be found somewhere making art and things out of words, reading, climbing rocks, or tracking censorship as News Editor for the Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy, the official journal of the ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.