Joel Peckham has published nine collections of poetry and nonfiction, including, Bone Music (SFAU 2021), MUCH (Uncollected Press 2021), Body Memory (New Rivers 2017), and Resisting Elegy (Chicago Review Press). Individual poems and essays have appeared in Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, The Sugar House Review, Cave Wall, The Beloit Poetry Journal, The Sun, and many others. He is also co-editor of the anthology, Wild Gods: The Ecstatic in American Poetry and Prose (New Rivers 2021). Currently he is an Associate Professor of regional Literature and Creative Writing at Marshall University.