Joe Pan

Joe Pan is the author of six books, including the poetry best-sellers Operating Systems and Hi c cu ps, received an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and was coeditor of the popular Brooklyn Poets Anthology. His work has appeared in such places as Hyperallergic, The New Republic, The New York Times, The Philadelphia Review of Books, and Poets & Writers; interviews with him have appeared in New York Post, Publishers Weekly, The Rumpus, and the Wall Street Journal. He is the founding publisher and editor-in-chief of Brooklyn Arts Press, the smallest house ever honored with a National Book Award in Poetry. He also serves as the publisher of Augury Books, honored with a Lambda Literary win for Best Book of Lesbian Poetry. Along with his wife, Pan co-founded the services-oriented activist group Brooklyn Artists Helping, dedicated to fighting homelessness.