Jason Zuzga is a PhD student in English at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is focusing on 18th century poetics and natural history. His poetry and nonfiction have appeared in journals such as The Yale Review, FENCE, jubilat, VOLT, LIT, Cue, and The Seneca Review. He received an MFA in poetry and nonfiction from the University of Arizona, and was a recipient of a Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center residency for 2001-2002, before which he worked in the editorial department at Alfred A. Knopf. He is currently the nonfiction editor of FENCE.