Ayize Jama-Everett calls the Bay Area his home despite being born in New
York City. He holds a Masters degrees in Divinity, Clinical Psychology,
in Fine Arts, Creative Writing. He has worked as a bartender, a
translator, a drug and alcohol counselor, a stand-up comedian, a script
doctor, a ghostwriter, a high school dean, a college professor, and for a
brief time, a distiller of spirits. Jama-Everett’s Liminal series began
with The Liminal People and continued with The Entropy of Bones and The Liminal War. He has also written a graphic novel, Box of Bones with two-time Eisner Award winner John Jennings and has written for The Believer and the LA Review of Books, among others.