Joseph Lease's critically acclaimed books of poetry include Testify (Coffee House Press 2011) and Broken World (Coffee House Press 2007). Lease has received the Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize and numerous grants and awards in poetry and poetics from Columbia University, Brown University, Harvard University, and California College of the Arts. He is a professor of writing and literature at California College of the Arts and a member of the advisory board of the Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics.