Joseph Riippi was born in Seattle and lives in New York City, where he is working on his MFA. His first novel, Do Something! Do Something! Do Something!, was published July 2009 by Ampersand Books. (www.ampersand-books.com)

A Cloth House (Housefire, 2012), The Orange Suitcase (Ampersand Books, 2011), do something! do something! do something! (Ampersand Books, 2009)

Treesisters (Greying Ghost Press, 2012)

Re:Telling (Ampersand Books, 2011), { C. }: An MLP Stamp Stories Anthology (Mud Luscious Press, 2011), Best of Every Day Fiction 2008 (Every Day Publishing, 2008), Ink-Filled Page Anthology 2008 (Indigo Editing & Publications, 2008), The Best of Farmhouse Magazine 2005-2008 (Farmhouse Publications, 2008)

(Short) Fiction Collective, 10,000 Tons of Black Ink, Ampersand Magazine, Big Lucks, Bitter Oleander, Brooklyn Rail, Elimae, Emprise Review, Epiphany, Everyday Genius, Farmhouse Magazine, flatmanCROOKED, Gulf Stream, knock, La Petite Zine, Metazen, NANO Fiction, New Delta Review, Pank, Promethean, Salamander, Slush Pile, Soon Quarterly, The Melancholy Dane, Zaum