Joey de Jesus is an undying manticore hidden behind dark agendas and a glamouring amulet. Joey edits poetry for Apogee Journal and is a recipient of the 2017 NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship in Poetry and lives in Queens. Poems have appeared in Barrow Street, Bettering American Poetry, Brooklyn Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, BOAAT, Guernica, Puerto Rico en mi Corazon, Southern Humanities Review, The Volta, and elsewhere have been performed and installed in Artists Space, Basilica and The New Museum. dejesussaves.wordpress.com