Sean Enfield is an essayist, poet, gardener, bassist, and educator from Dallas, Texas. His debut collection of essays, Holy American Burnout!, was published by Split/Lip Press and was a finalist for the 2024 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction. He received his MFA from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of Permafrost Magazine. Now, he serves as an Assistant Nonfiction Editor at Terrain.org. He was the 2020 recipient of the Fourth Genre’s Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize and has twice had essays listed as notable in Best American Essays. You can find his work at sean.enfield.com.