J Elizabeth Mascoli was born outside of Boston, Massachusetts, in 2000. She began writing at a young age, but as she grew older, it became a more serious pastime, and now works on both fictional and journalistic endeavors. She is a rising senior at Fordham University in New York City, and is a biweekly columnist at its political magazine, Fordham Political Review.  Her first fiction YA novel was published at age 18 in 2019, titled Broken Glass, and can be found at her website.