Neon Mashurov (NM Esc)

Neon Mashurov (NM Esc) is a writer from Brooklyn and the post-Soviet diaspora. Their most recent chapbooks are SERVICE (Bottlecap Press, 2022), and Last Week’s Weather Forecast Made Me Nervous (Ghost City Press / Secret Riso Club, 2018), and their poetry appears in publications including We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, Black Warrior Review, Hot Pink Magazine, The Recluse, The Felt, and Peach Magazine. They hold an MFA from the University of California San Diego, where they edited the Alchemy translation journal and completed a hybrid manuscript about collective organizing and inherited political depression. They currently live in New York and teach writing at the School of Visual Arts.