Joey Franklin is an associate professor of English at Brigham Young University. His essays and articles have appeared in Poets & Writers, Gettysburg Review, The Norton Reader, and elsewhere. He currently serves as co-editor of the literary magazine Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, and coordinates the MFA program at Brigham Young. His active projects include a memoir about the saints and scoundrels in his family tree, and a practical guide to professionalization in creative writing.