The London Times called Joseph Cummins’ novel The Snow Train “a wonderful, sustained piece of intelligent and emotive writing.” His short story “Killed by Car at 12th & Collingwood,” published in the Apple Valley Review, has been nominated for the 2018 Best of the Net anthology. He has also published short fiction in The Carolina Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, Sleet Magazine, Blue Lake Review, Chagrin River Review, and elsewhere. He has an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and is a MacDowell Colony Fellow. He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey, and teaches English composition at Hudson Country Community College in Jersey City.