Joseph Kidney has published poems in Best Canadian Poetry 2024, Arc, The Ex-Puritan, Vallum, Oberon, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, PRISM, Canadian Literature, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed (in Arabic translation), and forthcoming in The Iowa Review, Copper Nickel, and The Cincinnati Review. He won a National Magazine Award Gold Medal for Poetry, the Poem of the Year Contest from Arc Poetry Magazine, the Short Grain Contest from Grain, and The Young Buck Poetry Prize (now the Foster Poetry Prize) from CV2 for the best poem submitted by an author under 35. He was shortlisted for the Bedford International Poetry Award, The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize, and The Malahat Review‘s Far Horizons Contest. He has served as Deer Lake Artist in Residence (British Columbia), Port Austin Artist in Residence (Michigan), with residencies in 2026 at the Banff Centre (Alberta) and Wildacres (North Carolina), with support from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Having completed his PhD in early modern drama at Stanford University, he now works as a lecturer in Stanford’s Civic, Liberal, and Global Education program. His chapbook Terra Firma, Pharma Sea is available from Anstruther Press. His debut book, Devotional Forensics, was published by icehouse poetry in spring 2025 and is a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. He divides his time between the Bay Area and Vancouver.

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