JOSHUA MEHIGAN is a poet born in 1969. His first book, The Optimist (Ohio Univ. Press, 2004), was one of five finalists for a 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize and winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. His poems have been featured in many periodicals, including Poetry, The New York Times, and The New Republic, and on Poetry Daily and The Writer’s Almanac. He lives with his wife, Talia Neffson, in Brooklyn, New York, where he works as a teaching fellow at Brooklyn College. He is the recipient of a 2011 NEA Fellowship.

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