Jason "Jay" Sepac is an essayist and visual artist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His visual essays and nonfiction have appeared in Kenyon Review Online, The Iowa Review, Fourth Genre, The Normal School, The Pinch, and others.. His visual essays have been finalists and runners-up for multiple contests, including the Fourth Genre Multimedia Essay Contest and BRINK Hybrid Writing Award. He is the recipient of a 2026 Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship. 

He is currently developing a collection of linked visual essays that considers nostalgia and how it intersects with the image-based technology of particular eras (Polaroids, Super 8 Film, VHS, early cinema, etc.). He received an MFA in creative writing from Oregon State University, where he also currently teaches.