Joseph Fasano is the author of four books of poetry: THE CROSSING (2018); VINCENT (2015), a book-length poem that Rain Taxi Review hailed as a "major literary achievement"; INHERITANCE (2014), a James Laughlin Award nominee; and FUGUE FOR OTHER HANDS (2013), which won the Cider Press Review Book Award and was nominated for the Poets' Prize, "awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year." His work has appeared in The Yale Review, The Southern Review, Tin House, PEN Poetry Series, American Poets, Measure, The Missouri Review, The American Literary Review, Verse Daily , The Academy of American Poets' poem-a-day program, and the anthologies Poem-a-Day: 365 Poems for Any Occasion (Abrams, 2015) and The Aeolian Harp (Glass Lyre Press, 2016), among other publications. A winner of the RATTLE Poetry Prize, he teaches at Columbia University and Manhattanville College.