JANINE JOSEPH is the author of the previous collection Driving without a License (2016), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. A formerly undocumented poet and librettist from the Philippines, Joseph´s poetry, essays, and critical writings have appeared in numerous venues, including The Nation, The Atlantic, The Georgia Review, Poetry Northwest, The Rumpus, Pleiades, and the Smithsonian’s “What It Means to Be American” project. Her commissioned chamber operas, song cycles, and choral works include The Art of Our Healers (Washington Master Chorale and Houston Grand Opera), What Wings They Were: The Case of Emeline (Houston Grand Opera’s HGOco), and “On This Muddy Water”: Voices from the Houston Ship Channel (HGO/ HGOco). Decade of the Brain: Poems (Alice James Books) is Joseph’s latest collection.