J.L Moultrie is a native Detroiter, poet, and fiction writer who communicates his art through the written word. He fell in love with literature after encountering Fyodor Dostoyevsky, James Baldwin, Rainer Maria Rilke, and many others. His work appears or is forthcoming in Datura Literary Journal, Abstract: Contemporary Expressions, Visitant, Backchannels, The Free Library of the Internet Void, and elsewhere. He considers himself a literary abstract artist of modernity.