Joshua Roark serves as faculty for Antioch’s Post-MFA Certificate in the Teaching of Creative Writing. He is the founder and director of PocketMFA, a 12-week mentoring and workshopping program for creative writers. He was formerly the editorial director of the publishing collective for emerging authors, Discover New Art, where he founded and edited publications across multiple genres of writing. His chapbook of sonnets, Put One Hand Up, Lean Back, was published with Unsolicited Press. He and his wife live happily in Los Angeles, where they write and make films together.