Neil Fauerso was born in Los Angeles and raised in the Transcendental Meditation community in Fairfield, Iowa. He received a B.A. from the University of Texas in Austin, an MFA in creative writing and a J.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle. He lived in Beijing for two years before returning and settling in San Antonio in 2015. 

 Neil has written about film since he was 15 and co-founded the modern classical record label Unseen Worlds in 2005. He has organized multiple concerts globally for such musicians as Carl Stone, Elodie Lauten, Girma Yifrashewa, Jesse Jenkins (of Pure X), Lubomyr Melnyk, and his father, Paul Fauerso. He has collaborated multiple times with his sister, the artist Joey Fauerso. His approach to art writing is highly intertextual, everything — film, music, visual art, literature — is in the nexus of creativity and in dialogue with each other.