Joshua Corey graduated from Vassar College in 1993 and earned an M.A. in English literature and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Montana. He was awarded a Stegner Fellowship in creative writing from Stanford University in 1999, and received his Ph.D. in English from Cornell University in 2007. He is the author of SEVERANCE SONGS (Tupelo Press, 2011), Fourier Series (Spineless Books, 2005), SELAH (Barrow Street Press, 2003), and two chapbooks. He teaches at Lake Forest College in Illinois.