Henry Goldkamp lives in New Orleans, where he teaches poetry and performance studies at Louisiana State University, hosts the reading series Splice, and serves as communications director of the New Orleans Poetry Festival. He is the author of Not My Circus (Ursus Americanus, 2025) and JOY BUZZER: A Clown Show (Ricochet Editions, 2025). Recent creative work, performance, and criticism appears in Annulet, Chicago Review, Poetry Northwest, mercury firs, Triquarterly, DIAGRAM, and Denver Quarterly, among others. He wishes dunce caps would make a comeback, stat.