JASON MAGABO PEREZ, writer, performer, and educator, received his M.F.A. in Writing & Consciousness from the now defunct New College of California. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Tayo, Witness, and Mission at Tenth. A VONA Voices Summer Writing Workshop alumnus, and a featured artist for the AjA Project and the New Americans Museum, Perez has performed at the National Asian American Theater Festival, at several universities across California, and at venues such as the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, and the La Jolla Playhouse. For the past few years, he has taught writing, performance, and ethnic studies at the University of San Diego, the University of California, San Diego, Miramar College, and the Art Institute of California-San Diego, and has facilitated critical art praxis workshops at various campuses and community centers. Currently, he lives in San Diego and is writing for a dance-theatre collaboration for which he and San Francisco-based director and choreographer Alleluia Panis have been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.