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. Since 2019 he has served as co-editor of the literary magazine Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, and teaches in  the MFA program at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.