Conor McNamara works as a rodman in pipeline land survey. He was born and raised in Seattle. His fiction and poetry have appeared in several literary journals, both online and in print. His work recently appeared in The Saturday Evening Post, Prometheus Dreaming, and X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine. “Words Matter," the reading series he began in 2017 in Pensacola, provides a platform for artists to create community and share their art.