Derek Loosvelt was born in South Carolina and grew up in Michigan. He is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and received an MFA from The New School. He has written for Paper, The Independent, Brill’s Content, ARTINFO, Inside.com, and CNBC.com, and has led creative writing workshops for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals in New York. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and son.