Joseph Hess has taught at Columbus College of Art & Design since August of 2022 and currently teaches LIBA 1290 (Composition). His professional recognition includes runner-up in the Academy of American Poets prize in 2008, finalist in the Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest and published the Mississippi Valley Poetry Anthology in 2009, and quarter finalist in the Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Contest in 2013. You can find his poetry in The Ekphrastic Review, Into the Void, Belt Magazine’s Columbus Anthology, Shabda Press’s Anthology Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands, and the Ohio Poetry Association’s Ekphrastic Anthology A Rustling and Waking Within. He has a chapbook published by Finishing Line Press, Trauma Decor 2021. (@jsphhss) / Twitter