Joseph Torra is the author of numerous novels and books of poetry. Titles include Gas Station, Tony Luongo, My Ground, The Bystander's Scrapbook and After the Chinese. He published lift magazine in the early 1990s, and serves on the editorial board at Pressed Wafer Press. He lives in Somerville, MA with his wife and daughters. He has published a novel, They Say, and a prose poetry collection, Watteau Sky, with Quale Press.

Joseph Torra (left) & Gerrit Lansing (right)