Born in New Jersey and raised in rural central Pennsylvania, Chris Vasantkumar (he/him) now teaches anthropology on Sydney, Australia’s north shore where he lives with his partner and two sons on the edges of unceded Garigal, Dharug, and Gayamaygal land. He has published numerous scholarly essays; his poetry appears in Cordite Poetry Review and BoomerLitMag and will soon be published in the Bennington Review.