Sean Hooks is a writer, professor, and editor, born and raised in New Jersey. He has resided in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex since 2021 after extended stints in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. He publishes regularly, teaches at the University of Texas at Arlington, and holds a BA-Liberal Arts from Drew University, an MFA-Fiction from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and an MA-English from Loyola Marymount University.