M. was formerly a child in upstate New York and later a young adult in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where they earned their bachelor’s degree in creative nonfiction; gender, sexuality, & women’s studies; and children’s literature from the University of Pittsburgh. Returning to the University as a graduate student, they earned their master’s degree in library & information science, specializing in reparative metadata & radical cataloguing, critical librarianship, digital preservation, and community-centered archives.

They can typically be found somewhere making art and things out of words, reading, climbing rocks, or tracking censorship as News Editor for the Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy, the official journal of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF).