Bengesko has spent most of his life in the Appalachians and the Deep South.

When he isn't laid up from his Ehlers Danlos or POTS throwing him a curveball, he can be found lurking in his lair, working on his writing, freelancing with art, happily zoning out playing video games, or being the neighborhood cryptid.

Despite missing the wild lands of Alabama and North Carolina, Bengesko has claimed territory of his own in the Pacific Northwest. He and his pack are living in a happy, but occasionally chaotic household with his partner and their sister, a feral step-daughter, two Gremlins pretending to be Brussels Griffons, and the memory of a cockatiel who lived to 36 before departing this world.