ALEXANDER SHALOM JOSEPH 

My name is Alexander Shalom Joseph. I am the author of five published books: the novella “the last of the light” (Orison, 2024), the poetry manuscripts “broken light in a burning wood” (Middle Creek Publishing, 2023), “our mother, the mountain” (Middle Creek Publishing, 2022), and the chapbook “buttons and bones” (above/ground press, 2020), as well as the short story collection “American Wasteland” (Owl Canyon Press, 2021). I have an MFA in Creative Writing from The Jack Kerouac School and an MA in English Education. My poetry is contemporary nature writing from the American West in the time of climate change and catastrophic forest fires, and my fiction deals with the mundane and the magical and how through writing characters into these situations, we can find deep humanity, connectivity and universality. I live in Colorado with my partner.