Joshua Mehigan is the poetry editor of RQ. His first book, The Optimist (Ohio UP), was a finalist for a 2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. His second book, Accepting the Disaster (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), was cited in the TLS, New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere as a best book of 2015. Mehigan was an artist in residence at Northwestern University from 2017 to 2020. He has received fellowships from the NEA and the Guggenheim Foundation.