JANINE JOSEPH is a poet and librettist from the Philippines. She is the author of Decade of the Brain (Alice James Books, 2023) and Driving without a License (2016), winner of the Kundiman Poetry Prize. She is also co-editor of Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora (HarperCollins 2024), an anthology of poetry and statement of poetics. Her commissioned works for the Houston Grand Opera, Washington Master Chorale, and Symphony New Hampshire include "Extraordinary Motion: Concerto for Electric Harp," "The Art of Our Healers," "What Wings They Were," "'On This Muddy Water': Voices from the Houston Ship Channel," and "From My Mother’s Mother". A MacDowell Fellow, Janine is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Virginia Tech and a co-organizer for Undocupoets, a nonprofit literary organization that supports poets who are currently or who were formerly undocumented in the U.S.