Joshua Wheeler, author of the essay collection Acid West—which Claire Vaye Watkins called “a freaky, stylish, heart-cracking-open book”—is from Alamogordo, New Mexico. His essays have appeared in many journals including The Missouri Review, PANK, Sonora Review, and The Iowa Review. Co-editor of the anthology We Might as Well Call It the Lyric Essay, he has written feature stories for BuzzFeed and Harper’s Magazine online. He teaches creative writing at Louisiana State University.

“If you have the chance to study essays with the great faculty and students at Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program, you do it. There’s no two ways about it. You will come out of the program a more generous reader, a more equipped teacher, a more dedicated researcher, a more passionate journalist, and a more lyrical writer. Perhaps most importantly, you’ll become part of a community of writers who are consistently producing some of the best, most important art around.”