Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of six collections of poetry, most recently Swamp Isthmus (Black Ocean 2013). He has edited two anthologies: Poets on Teaching (featuring 101 poets' essays) and, with Christina Mengert, 12x12: Conversations in 21st Century Poetry & Poetics (both from University of Iowa Press). He lives in Tucson, where he teaches in the MFA program in creative writing at the University of Arizona.