Joseph Holt is author of the story collection Golden Heart Parade (Santa Fe Writers Project, 2021). His writing has appeared in The Sun, Prairie Schooner, and J Journal: New Writing on Justice. Holt graduated from the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi, and he has received scholarships to the Sewanee Writers' Conference and the Community of Writers Workshops. He teaches at Catapult and the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He lives in Interior Alaska