Jason Downs was born in Norwalk in 1992. Shortly after, his family moved to Lakewood and he graduated from Lakewood High School in 2010. From 2010-2020, Downs attended CSULA where he graduated with a BA in 2015, an English teaching credential in 2018, and an MA in English Literature in 2020. His academic studies focused specifically on the way in which mass media, literature, and the new digital age affects and manipulates the construction of identity. He spends most of his free time watching anime, reading serialized fantasy and science fiction, or walking/playing with his beautiful dogs Roland and Midna.
List of Books:
Summer of the Mariposas by Guadalupe Garcia McCall
Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhaa Lai
Maus by Art Spiegelmen
