Joi Brozek lived her entire life in New York before moving to Kansas this past April. She is the author of Sleeveless (Phonylid Press), along with numerous chapbooks on independent presses. She is just about finished writing her second novel, I’ll See You Soon at Coney Island. She holds a BA from New York University and an MFA from Brooklyn College. Fearing that she was too New York-centric, she decided that a change of pace was necessary and moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where she enjoys writing to the sounds of cicadas and thunderstorms as opposed to car alarms and rats squealing in the garbage outside her window. She also acknowledges it is an entirely different experience reading In Cold Blood while living in Kansas.