Joseph S. Pete is an award-winning journalist, an Iraq War veteran, an Indiana University graduate, a photographer, and a frequent guest on Lakeshore Public Radio. He is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee who has read his work for the Fictitious series on the iO Theater stage in Chicago, who staged a play at the Detroit Heritage Theater Festival, who showcased his photography at the Oddtropolis Art Show in San Francisco, and who was named the poet laureate of Chicago BaconFest, a feat that Chaucer chump never accomplished. His literary has appeared or is forthcoming in more than 100 journals, including The Tipton Poetry Journal, Voicemail Poems, Dogzplot, and Proximity Magazine. Like Bartleby, he would prefer not to.
