Benjamin O'Reilly grew up splitting time between Boston's North Shore and San Diego, learning to ollie on a chipped curb and watching meteor showers from motel roofs. He studied English at UC Santa Cruz and later worked as an outreach coordinator at a coastal science center, where he started a night-sky club for teens and hosted free telescope nights on the beach. A former skate shop clerk and zine editor, his short fiction and essays have appeared in small journals and community anthologies. He lives in Santa Cruz with his partner and a dog named Comet, volunteers with youth skate programs, and still carries a pocket star map in case the fog lifts.
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