Joe Baumann’s fiction and essays have appeared in Phantom Drift,
Passages North, Iron Horse Literary Review, Electric Literature, and many
others. He possesses a PhD in English from the University of
Louisiana-Lafayette. He was a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow in
Fiction. His debut short story collection, Sing With Me at the Edge of
Paradise, was chosen as the inaugural winner of the Iron Horse/Texas
Tech University Press First Book Award, and his second story
collection, The Plagues, will be released by Cornerstone Press in
2023. His debut novel, I Know You’re Out There Somewhere, is forth-
coming from Deep Hearts YA. He can be reached at joebaumann.wordpress.com.
