Alexan­der Shalom Joseph is the author of the short sto­ry col­lec­tion Amer­i­can Waste­land, the prose poet­ry col­lec­tion Our Moth­er, The Moun­tain, and the poet­ry chap­book But­tons and Bones. He works as a car­pen­ter and lives in a cab­in in Colorado.