Joseph Campana is a poet, arts writer, and scholar of the literature and culture of Renaissance England and Europe. He is the author of three collections of poetry The Book of Faces (2005), Natural Selections (2012), and The Book of Life(2019). He has received fellowships from the NEA, Houston Arts Alliance, and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. He is currently developing The Chapel in the Hive, which anchors an ongoing collaboration with composer Kurt Stallmann. He serves as William Shakespeare Professor of English at Rice University where he directs the Center for Environmental Studies.