Joanne Diaz is the author of The Lessons, My Favorite Tyrants, and Electric Dress, forthcoming from Barrow Street Press. With Ian Morris, she is the co-editor of The Little Magazine in Contemporary America, and is the co-host, with Abram Van Engen, of the Poetry for All podcast. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Illinois Arts Council. She is currently the Isaac Funk Professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University, where she teaches courses on early modern literature and creative writing.