Joseph J. Capista teaches creative writing and expository writing at Towson University. His collection Intrusive Beauty was selected by Beth Ann Fennelly for Ohio University Press’s 2018 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. Poems by Capista have appeared in AGNI, The Georgia Review, The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, and Slate. Prose by Capista has appeared in the Baltimore Sun. His work in education has taken him into group homes, high schools, universities, preschools, and a state penitentiary.
A recipient of awards from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Maryland State Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, Capista holds an MFA from Warren Wilson College. He and his spouse are longtime residents of Baltimore, where they raise their daughters.
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