Mehigan, Joshua: - Joshua Mehigan's first book, The Optimist, was a finalist for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry. His poems have appeared in periodicals including The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Poetry, where he has been a frequent contributor of poems and essays. His writing has also been featured on Poetry Daily and The Writer's Almanac, and in numerous anthologies. He is the recent recipient of Poetry magazine's Editor's Prize for Feature Article, and of a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Mehigan lives in New York City.