Joshua Robbins has recent work published or forthcoming in Best New Poets, Verse Daily, Third Coast, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Copper Nickel, Mid-American Review, Southern Poetry Review, and elsewhere. He won the 2008 James Wright Poetry Award, and recently received a Pushcart Prize nomination. Robbins is a PhD student in English at the University of Tennessee, where he teaches poetry writing and English composition, and serves as Poetry Editor for the journal Grist. He blogs at Little Epic Against Oblivion.