Joseph Harrington is the author of Things Come On (an amneoir) (Wesleyan), a mixed-genre work relating the twinned narratives of the Watergate scandal and his mother's cancer; the chapbooks Goodnight Whoever's Listening (Essay Press) and Earth Day Suite (Beard of Bees); and the critical work Poetry and the Public (Wesleyan). His work has appeared in BAX: The Best American Experimental Writing 2016, Hotel Amerika, Colorado Review, Fact-Simile and Atticus Review, among others. He teaches at the University of Kansas, in Lawrence, America, where he lives in Prairie Meadows — a redundancy that does not describe what is there now.