Jaison Pascuzzi

Jaison Pascuzzi, born in 1977, has been drawing and making up stories since early childhood. He currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

His first experiences with clay were in elementary art class. In college Jaison discovered clay as a critical material to achieve self expression. He graduated from Slippery Rock University in 2000 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics. In 2005, he completed an Art Education Certificate from Carlow University.

Jaison is an art teacher for Woodland Hills School District and formerly an Americorps Volunteer for the Braddock Creative Arts Program.

He's had a short story and a poem published in the Writes of Passage literary journal.

Paths in Clay is his first published novel.