Joseph Salvatore's debut collection of short stories, To Assume a Pleasing Shape, was published by BOA in 2011. He is a regular fiction reviewer for The New York Times Book Review and is assistant professor at The New School, where he founded their literary journal, LIT. His work has appeared in The Brooklyn Rail, Dossier Journal, H.O.W. Journal, LIT, New York Tyrant, Open City, Post Road, Salt Hill, Sleeping Fish, Willow Springs, 110 Stories (NYU Press, 2001), and Routeledge’s Encyclopedia of Queer Culture (2003).  For more information about Joseph Salvatore, visit josephsalvatore.com