Joseph Kidney has published poems in Best Canadian Poetry 2024, Arc, Vallum, The Malahat Review, Oberon, The Fiddlehead, Periodicities, The New Quarterly, PRISM, The Ex-Puritan, and Al-Araby Al-Jadeed (in Arabic translation). He won the Short Grain Contest from Grain, and The Young Buck Poetry Prize (now the Foster Poetry Prize) from CV2 for the best poem submitted by an author under 35. He was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize, the Bedford International Poetry Award, Arc’s Poem of the Year (three times), The Malahat Review’s Far Horizons Contest, The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize, and a Canadian National Magazine Award. Originally from BC, he is currently a lecturer at Stanford University. His chapbook Terra Firma, Pharma Sea is available from Anstruther Press.