Hailing from Bethlehem, CT, Jacob Maren is a recent high school graduate from the Millbrook School, in Millbrook, New York. He is the creator of the print and online literary magazine One Word. In its first issue (link below), he interviews notable creative writers—including Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Winner's Jennifer Egan, Richard Russo, and Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize Book Award finalist Karen Russell, and other notable writers such as Jim Shepard and Andre Dubus III—about their personal interpretation of the word "perception". His second issue will be released this fall, where he will start his college undergraduate studies at Wesleyan University.