Henry Goldkamp lives in New Orleans, where he teaches poetry and performance studies at Louisiana State University, hosts the reading series Splice, acts as intermedia editor for Tilted House, and serves as communications director of the New Orleans Poetry Festival. He is the author of Not My Circus (Ursus Americanus, 2025), JOY BUZZER: A Clown Show (Ricochet Editions, 2025), and Balloon Animal (Cloak, forthcoming April 2026). Recent creative work, performance, and criticism appears in Annulet, Chicago Review, Poetry Northwest, Grotto, Triquarterly, DIAGRAM, and Denver Quarterly, among others. He wishes dunce caps would make a comeback, stat.