Joseph P. Wood was born and raised in Philadelphia PA and has lived in Montpelier, Boston, and Tucson. He now resides in Tuscaloosa where he and his wife, Amy, teach English at the University of Alabama. Joseph's poems have appeared in various journals, which include 32 Poems, Beloit Poetry Journal, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, Passages North, Prairie Schooner, River City, and West Branch. In 2004, he was the Hannah S. and Samuel A. Cohn Fellow at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program.