Neon Mashurov (@neonsigh) is a writer from Brooklyn and the post-Soviet diaspora currently pursuing an MFA at the University of San Diego’s cross-genre writing program. Their music writing has been published in Pitchfork, Stereogum, IMPOSE Magazine, and elsewhere. Their poetry, as NM Esc, has been published in We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, The Recluse, the Poetry Project’s House Party series, The Felt, Peach Magazine, Ghost City Press’s summer microchap series, and multiple chapzines. They are the current editor-in-chief of Alchemy, UCSD’s journal of experimental translation.