Joel Deutsch’s publication credits range from early poems in "little" magazines like Big Boulevard and Open City to articles and essays in the San Francisco Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, the Directors Guild magazine, and the online culture and travel journal World Hum. Currently poetry editor of the online literary quarterly r.kv.r.y., he’s living in Los Angeles, stacking up new autobiographical essays on top of the ones presented here, and working on a first novel.