Jesse Hassenger was born in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., a small town without an Irish mafia or a biker gang. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 2002 with a major in English, and currently lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. His reviews have appeared in PopMatters, The L Magazine, and on filmcritic.com; his fiction has appeared in Me Three and Dirt, and he is a member of the Blackout Writing Collective. He enjoys many types of pie and rarely writes in the third person.