Joseph Gustafson received his MA in English from Assumption College and has taught in high schools and colleges for over 20 years.
Winning several Massachusetts cultural grants, Joseph Gustafson’s poems have appeared in The Writer, Yankee, The New York Quarterly, Lake Effect, The New Renaissance, Frogpond, Japanophile, Crosscurrents, Tabula Rasa, Parnasus Literary Journal, The Poetry Peddler, Worcester Review, Skylark, Pearl, and many other magazines.
He is also the author of seven books of poetry, Catnips: A Book of Haiku on Cats, October Sun: A Year of Haiku (Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America), A Talk on Haiku, Fathers Who Won’t Die, Homosapien USA, Gettysburg Voices: Civil War Poems, Searching for Hearts, a chapbook of love poems, a novel, East Side Angels, and two satires, Ireland in Wonderland and Cinque Terre Highlights.
He taught for many years in the summer program, State of Maine Writers’ Conference, Ocean Park, ME and Cape Cod Writers’ Conference, Craigville, MA.