Joseph Kidney is the author of Devotional Forensics (icehouse poetry), winner of the Griffin Poetry Canadian First Book Prize and shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in Best Canadian Poetry and are forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Copper Nickel, and The Cincinnati Review. He won a National Magazine Award Gold Medal for Poetry and the Poem of the Year award from Arc Poetry Magazine. He has received support from the Banff Centre, Wildacres, and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. His full-length debut, Devotional Forensics (icehouse poetry) is a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. He currently works as a lecturer at Stanford University, where he completed his PhD in Renaissance drama.