Joshua Boettiger is Jewish chaplain and visiting assistant professor of humanities at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. He is the current rosh yeshiva for the Center for Contemporary Mussar and for the last decade directed the Mussar program at Temple Emek Shalom in Ashland, Ore. Joshua also teaches Jewish meditation and co-leads silent retreats. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Pacific University, and his poetry has appeared in the Missouri Review, the Southern Review, B O D Y and elsewhere.