Joseph Lapin is an author, journalist, vice president of marketing and communications at Circa Interactive, and poet in San Diego, California. His writing has been published in the Los Angeles Times, Narratively, Los Angeles Review, Salon, Slate, The Independent, The Rattling Wall, The Middle Gray, Sirens Call Publications’ anthology Mental Ward: Echoes of the Past, Literary Orphans, and Sliver of Stone. He is a graduate of the MFA program at Florida International University. He is the host of The Working Poet Radio Show.