Joel Chace hails from Upstate New York. After thirty-eight years of teaching literature and creative writing in schools around the world, he is now retired and living with his wife in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He has published work in print and electronic magazines such as Tip of the Knife, Eratio, Otoliths, Word For/Word, Golden Handcuffs Review, New American Writing, and The Brooklyn Rail. His full-length collections include matter no matter, from Paper Kite Press, Humors, from Paloma Press, Threnodies, from Moria Books, fata morgana, from Unlikely Books, and Maths, from Chax Press. Chace is an NEH Fellow.  

Underrated Provinces is now available from MadHat Press.