JOSHUA MEHIGAN’S first book, The Optimist (Ohio UP, 2004), was a finalist for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry and winner of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. His second book, Accepting the Disaster, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Born in upstate New York in 1969, he has lived for the past twenty years in New York City, where he currently works as a teaching fellow at Brooklyn College.

Mehigan’s poems have appeared in many periodicals, including Poetry, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Times. His writing has also been featured on Poetry Daily and The Writer’s Almanac, and in anthologies such as Poetry: A Pocket Anthology (Penguin, 2008) and Bright Wings (Columbia UP, 2009). Translations of his poems by Christophe Fricker have appeared in various German periodicals, including Akzente and Krachkultur.

Mehigan was awarded Poetry magazine’s 2011 Editors Prize for best feature article of the year. He was also the recipient, in 2011, of a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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