Joseph Fasano is a poet, novelist, and songwriter. His many books of poetry and prose include The Teacher (Maudlin House, 2025), The Last Song of the World (BOA Editions, 2024), The Swallows of Lunetto (Maudlin House, 2022), The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing (Platypus Press, 2020), Fugue for Other Hands (Cider Press, 2013), and Vincent (Cider Press, 2015). His honors include the Rattle Poetry Prize, the Cider Press Review Book Award, and a nomination by Linda Pastan for the Poets’ Prize, “awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year.” His work has appeared in The Yale Review, The Southern Review, Boston Review, The Times Literary Supplement, and other publications and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. He lives in New York.