Joel Long received an MFA in poetry at University of Utah, and currently teaches creative writing and art history in West Jordan, Utah.

"These are humane and demanding poems. Their craft and power is in their ability to spin the reader around in a narrative darkness only to have a lyric wit and resolve suddenly lit up, revealing beautifully organised spaces of power and emotion. This is persuasive writing: a poetry in which almost every gesture of language is working its passage back into a world of true, powerful feeling" -- Eavan Boland.