Sydney Jean Reisen was raised between New Jersey and Upstate New York. She went to Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey where she got a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts and a BA with honors in English from Rutgers College. Currently, she is a MA candidate at The Corcoran College of Art + Design and in August of 2012 bought a Vandercook SP-15 establishing the Ol’ Chef Press.