Josh Kalscheur is the author of Tidal (Four Way Books, 2015). He was a Halls Emerging Artist Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute of Creative Writing, a visiting Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY-Fredonia, as well as a recipient of a Bread Loaf scholarship. His work has appeared in Boston Review, Slate, The Nation and FENCE among others. He is a lecturer in the English Department at UW-Madison.