JOEY FRANKLIN is the author of The Writer's Hustle (Bloomsbury, 2023), Delusions of Grandeur: American Essays (Nebraska, 2020) and My Wife Wants You to Know I'm Happily Married (Nebraska, 2015). His essays and articles have appeared in Poets & Writers, Gettysburg Review, The Norton Reader, and elsewhere. He currently serves as co-editor of the literary magazine Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, and recently ended his run as coordinator for  the MFA program at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His active projects include a memoir about the saints and scoundrels in his family tree, and a collection of spiritual essays.