Simeon Marsalis is from New Rochelle, NY and earned a BA from the University of Vermont for his thesis on Jazz and American Nationalism and an MFA from Rutgers University-Newark, where he was the Henry Rutgers Fellow. His novel As Lie Is to Grin was published by Catapult in 2017 and shortlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. His essay “Why Jazz: A Music Festival Review” was published on Catapult.Co in 2017, and his short story “The Exterminator” appeared in the Fall 2021 Founder’s Issue of Lampblack, a magazine and literary organization he helped to co-found. Marsalis is working on his second novel, End Times, and is an Assistant Professor lecturer in the English Department at Rutgers University-Newark.
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