Joseph Reich is a social worker who lives with his wife and twelve-year-old son in the high-up mountains of Vermont. His escape to there came very close to The Von Trapps. He has been published in a wide variety of eclectic literary journals both here and abroad, been nominated six times for The Pushcart Prize, and his books in poetry and cultural studies include "If I Told You To Jump Off The Brooklyn Bridge" (Flutter Press), "Pain Diary: Working Methadone & The Life & Times Of The Man Sawed In Half" (Brick Road Poetry Press), "Drugstore Sushi" (Thunderclap Press), "The Derivation Of Cowboys & Indians" (Fomite Press), "The Housing Market: a comfortable place to jump off the end of the world" (Fomite Press), "The Hole That Runs Through Utopia" (Fomite Press), "Connecting The Dots To Shangrila: A Postmodern Cultural Hx Of America" (Fomite Press), "Taking The Fifth And Running With It: a psychological guide for the hard of hearing and blind" (Broadstone Books), "Scenes From The Dynamite Stand" (Bedlam Press), "The Hospitality Business" (Valeveil Press), "The Rituals Of Mummification" (Sagging Meniscus Press), "Magritte's Missing Murals: Insomniac Episodes" (Sagging Meniscus Press).