Jax NTP is a poet-educator who holds an MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from CSULB and teaches critical thinking, literature, and composition at several Southern California colleges.

In the classroom, they encourage students to interrogate language, question power, and occasionally personify inanimate objects, gently coaxing thesis statements toward existential clarity.

Their poetry explores longing, loss, and displacement. Myth, ammonites, cephalopods, and paper nautilus shells make the banal feel cosmic, opening into bruised, jewel-toned, slightly haunted nonspaces.

Rooted in queer tenderness and political awareness, Jax writes toward the small violences and brief mercies of intimacy, assembling wholeness from fragments.

Their debut collection, In Bones & Tentacles: How to Pivot When You’re Paralyzed, is forthcoming from Moon Tide Press.

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