Dylan grew up in downtown Chicago and graduated from Wesleyan University (in Connecticut) in 2020. Since then he has spent time in both Dublin and Madrid while working at a creative agency in Chicago. He now lives in Brooklyn.

Dylan is the winner of an American Academy of Poets University & College Prize and an alum of the Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium and the Louder than a Bomb poetry slam. He is fluent in Spanish.