Joyelle McSweeney is the author of eight books in various genres, including the verse play Dead Youth, or, the Leaks: A Play in Four Acts and The Necropastoral: Poetry, Media, Occults, a work of decadent ecopoetics. She coedits Action Books and teaches at the University of Notre Dame. Her ninth book, Toxicon and Arachne, was published by Nightboat Books in 2020.