Joseph Bradshaw was born in Idaho and spent an itinerant childhood along the west coast. He was a founding editor of FO(A)RM Magazine, and for several years co-curated the Spare Room reading series in Portland, OR. He has previously published two chapbooks, The Way Birds Become (Weather Press: 2007), and This Ocean, or Oppen Series (Cannibal Books: 2008). After earning an MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he now lives in Brooklyn, NY, where he works as an archivist for the Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation.