Joel Deutsch’s (www.joeldeutsch.net) publication credits range from early poems in “little” magazines like Big Boulevard and Open City to articles and essays in the San Francisco Examiner/Chronicle, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, the Directors Guild magazine, and the online culture and travel journal World Hum (worldhum.com). Currently poetry editor of the online literary quarterly R-KV-R-Y (ninetymeetingsinninetydays.com), he’s living in Los Angeles, stacking up new autobiographical essays on top of the ones presented here, and working on a first novel.