Joel Werring received his BA in Art Practice from the University of California at Berkeley and his MFA from the Yale School of Art. He has received numerous awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Painting. Werring is currently an associate professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology/State University of New York, where he served as chair of the Fine Arts Department from 2016 to 2019. He is currently senior editor (image) for Peripheries, a literary and arts journal published annually by Harvard Divinity School. He paints and lives with his family in Redding, Connecticut.