Joe Pan grew up along the Space Coast of Florida and attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His debut collection of poems, Autobiomythography & Gallery, was named "Best First Book of the Year" after being short-listed for the Yale Younger Poets prize, the National Poetry Series, and the Academy of American Poets' Walt Whitman Award. His work has appeared in such journals as Art World, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Glimmer Train, the Greensboro Review and The New York Times. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.