Ed Go is a Chinese-Filipino-Portuguese-English-Scottish-Irish American writer and educator raised in Massachusetts, Virginia, Alaska, Hawaii and Connecticut; he earned a GED from the State of Connecticut in 1988, an AA in Liberal Arts from Three Rivers Community College in 1998, a BA in English from Eastern Connecticut State University in 2003, an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College in 2005 and an MA in Teaching English from Brooklyn College in 2016. A former grocery and video store clerk, school bus driver, CDL driving instructor, garbage truck driver, exterminator, phone book deliverer, mystery shopper, college lecturer, adult education instructor and lead singer/guitar-player in a punk-folk band, Ed Go is a chaotic good, ex-catholic, pseudo-anarchist, quasi-existentialist, amateur pataphysicist, Star Wars devotee and cancer survivor who currently lives and works in Brooklyn NY. He also writes poems.