Joseph Earl Thomas is a graduate student in English at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds an MFA in prose from The University of Notre Dame. The recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright program, the Miami Bookfair, and winner of the Chautauqua Janus Prize for innovative writing, he thinks mostly about Twenty First-Century Literature and Culture, with particular interests in Fantasy, Memoir, and Black Studies. Joseph’s work can be found or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, and n+1.