Joe Wilkins was born and raised north of the Bull Mountains of eastern Montana. He lives with his wife and son on the north Iowa prairie, where he teaches writing at Waldorf College. His poems, essays, and stories appear in the Georgia Review, the Southern Review, the Missouri Review, Mid-American Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Orion, and Slate. His work has won numerous awards and honors, including multiple Pushcart Prize nominations, notable mention in Best American Essays, the Obsidian Prize for Nonfiction Writing about the American West, the 2008 Ellen Meloy Fund for Desert Writers, and Boulevard Magazine’s Emerging Poets Contest.