Joshua Jennings Wood’s writing appears in DIAGRAM, Nimrod, The North American Review, Permafrost, VOLT and elsewhere. He is poetry editor of dirtcakes, (www.dirtcakes.org) a triquarterly journal exploring themes suggested by the UN Millennium Development Goals to end extreme poverty by 2015. He teaches writing at the Orange County High School of the Arts, Orange Coast College and Saddleback College, and lives with his wife and their two young boys whose combined age is less than four.