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

Through teaching, readings, editorial work, and public programming, Jax builds spaces for language, imagination, curiosity, and difficult questions.

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

Outside the classroom, they edit literary journals to amplify marginalized voices and octopus into readings, workshops, festivals, and public conversations across Orange County wherever poems refuse to stay on the page.

Rooted in queer absurdity and immigration's afterlives, their poetry follows cephalopod logic, exploring how fragmentation and displacement become inheritances nobody asked for, sending the banal to breakfast with the uncanny and the grotesque.

Their debut collection, In Bones & Tentacles: How to Pivot When You’re Paralyzed, is available for pre-order from Moon Tide Press.

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