Josh Lefkowitz won the 2013 Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Prize, an Avery Hopwood Award for Poetry at the University of Michigan, and was a finalist for the 2014 Brooklyn Non-Fiction Prize. His poems and essays have been published at Court Green, The Rumpus, The Huffington Post, The Hairpin, Queen Mob's Underground Funnies, and many other places. He has also recorded humorous essays for NPR's All Things Considered and BBC's Americana.