Sculpture is “Path of Emotions” by Jeppe Hein at the Villa Carmignac
Joe Sacksteder has a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Utah, where he served as managing editor of Quarterly West. He is the author of a story collection, Make/Shift (Sarabande Books), winner of the 2017 Linda Bruckheimer Series in Kentucky Literature, and a novel, Driftless Quintet (Schaffner Press), winner of the 2018 Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature. His album Fugitive Traces is available from Punctum Books, and his next novel, Hack House, is forthcoming from Astrophil Press. His writing has appeared in such venues as The Offing, Salt Hill, Ninth Letter, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, New South, and Michigan Quarterly Review, and it has been featured in The Atlantic’s Culture coverage.