Sean Arthur is a writer born and raised in rural central-west New Jersey.
He graduated from University of Delaware with a double major in History and Psychology. Later he earned a Masters of Arts Degree in Clinical Psychology with a concentration in Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology and licensure in School Psychology from Montclair State University.
As Mytho-Psychological Historian Psychedelic-Transcendentalist, Arthur enjoys weaving unique threads of psycho-spiritual perspective into his work, offering a fantastical clinical vantage-point to current 21st century society. Developmental and Transpersonal psychology inspired characterization allows his prose to be both poetic and scientific, spurring evocative, dynamic, deified characters. His work strives for balance between Gaia and Humanity, inner and outer, light and shadow, presenting readers with the natural pantheistic beauty and sentience of the dream of life conjunct with the cybernetic-industrial makeover of the ego of the thinking mind. A student of Yoga, Buddhism, and Zen philosophy and practitioner of asana/meditation, Arthur gleams eastern experiential wisdom over the western scientific objectivism. Being a professional psychologist, university adjunct professor, and avid gardener, hiker, camper, road-tripper, and psychedelic explorer, all contribute to the eco-consciousness rooted voice of a healer soaring the cosmos for freedom, connection, and sharing.
“His pieces are honest and true, raw and emotional, surreal and fantastic- inspired by actual people and actual events, imbued with folklore, fairy tale, and myth.”
— Nicholas DeRosa // fiction writer
Publications include the following: Co-author of the “Greener Blue Hens,” a scholarly report of Sustainability throughout college campuses (2008-2009); University of Delaware’s Mainstreet Journal (Spring 2010, Spring 2012); The Zine, an arts publication out of Flemington, New Jersey (2018). A lover of literature since childhood, his influences include Jung, Freud, Campbell, Ginsberg, Kerouac, Bukowski, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Huxley, Whitman, Emerson, and Eliot to name a few.