Biography
Alexander Shalom Joseph is the author of five published books: the novella “the last of the light (Orison, 2024), the poetry collections “broken light in a burning wood” (Middle Creek Publishing, 2023) “our mother, the mountain” (Middle Creek Publishing, 2022), the chapbook “buttons and bones” (above/ground press, 2020), and the short story collection “American Wasteland” (Owl Canyon Press, 2021). Alexander has an MA in English Education, an MFA in Creative Writing from The Jack Kerouac School, works construction, writes a weekly poetry newsletter for the Mountain Ear Newspaper and on Substack and teaches monthly workshops at two prisons in Denver.
