JANINE JOSEPH

Janine Joseph is a poet and librettist from the Philippines. She is the author of Decade of the Brain: Poems (Alice James Books, 2023) and Driving Without a License (2016), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic, The Georgia Review, Orion, Poets & Writers, Poem-a-Day, and the Smithsonian’s “What It Means to Be American” project. She is also co-editing Undocupoetics: An Introduction, forthcoming from Harper Collins/Harper Perennial. Her commissioned work for the Houston Grand Opera/HGOco and Washington Master Chorale includes The Art of Our Healers, What Wings They Were, “On This Muddy Water”: Voices from the Houston Ship Channel, and From My Mother's Mother. A co-organizer for Undocupoets and MacDowell Fellow, she is associate professor of creative writing at Oklahoma State University and the inaugural Dean’s Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Virginia Tech. Learn more at www.janinejoseph.com.