Jacy Morris was born in 1979 in Richmond, Virginia. At the age of ten he was transplanted to Portland, Oregon, where he developed a love for punk rock, horror movies, and writing, all three of which tend to find their way into his writing. As The Vocabulariast, he was the writer/owner/CEO of the website MovieCynics.com 2007-2014. He graduated from Portland State University with a Masters in Education. He has been an English and social studies teacher in Portland, Oregon since 2005.His first film, All Hell Breaks Loose is quickly gaining a cult following. It will be released onto DVD soon by Wild Eye Releasing, so keep your eyes peeled.

His second film, entitled The Cemetery People is now in pre-production.Under the name The Vocabulariast, he has written several books, including Unmade: A Neo-Nihilist Vampire Tale, This Rotten World, This Rotten World: We All Fall Down, The Enemies of our Ancestors, and Let's Get Drunk and Watch Horror Movies: 50 Horror Movie Reviews and Drinking Games. The Abbey is his first book under his real name, as he is trying to move behind his movie critic past to become less of a caricature and more of a real person that people can relate to.