Yehoshua Novem­ber is the author of two books of poet­ry God’s Opti­mism win­ner the MSR Book Award and a final­ist for the LA Times Book Prize and Two Worlds Exist a final­ist for the Nation­al Jew­ish Book Award. His poems have appeared in The New York Times Mag­a­zine The Sun Mag­a­zine Prairie Schooner VQR and on NPR. His work has also been fea­tured in numer­ous Jew­ish pub­li­ca­tions includ­ing the Jew­ish Week The For­ward Moment and Jew­ish Action. Novem­ber teach­es writ­ing at Rut­gers Uni­ver­si­ty and Touro College.