Jared Joseph lives in Nashville and teaches at Vanderbilt University. Recent work has been published in Notre Dame Review, Gulf Coast, and Interim. Joseph’s book Danny the Ambulance, published by Outpost19, is a novel about a bar full of people named Danny; Rose Mask, published by Five Nine, is a work of theater staging the repetitive and ineluctable hell that is the service industry. Soft Lighting, forthcoming from Bench in 2025, will be a setting-less novel.