Henry Goldkamp lives in New Orleans, where he teaches at Louisiana State University, works as an associate editor for Tilted House, serves as communications director of the New Orleans Poetry Festival, and acts as a member of the international artist group Collective Task. He is the author of Not My Circus (Ursus Americanus, 2025), JOY BUZZER: A Clown Show (Ricochet Editions, 2025), and Balloon Animal (Cloak, April 2026). He wishes dunce caps would make a comeback, stat.