Justin received his BFA in playwriting from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He currently serves as the Executive Director of So Say We All, a San Diego-based literary arts and education non-profit. In a prior career, he served with the United Nations in South Sudan as an emergency response officer. He is a recipient of the San Diego Foundation’s Creative Catalyst Fellowship and Rising Arts Leader award, and is an alumni of the Vermont Studio Center. He is a two-time semi-finalist for the Fish Publishing international short story contest and winner of the 2014 In-Cahoots Collaborative Arts Contest. His stories have been published by The Quotable, Art Pulse, The Naughty American, and Monologues for Men by Men. He produces and hosts the PRX public radio series, Incoming.