Jay Passer's poems and prose have appeared in print and online since 1988. He is the author of 10 chapbooks spanning the last decade, most recently, They Lied to Me When They Said Everything Would Be Alright, from Pski's Porch Publishing, and The Black and the Blues, from Alien Buddha Press, both released in 2018. Passer lives and works in San Francisco, the city of his birth.