Joel Long’s book Winged Insects won the White Pine Press Poetry Prize. His chapbooks, Chopin’s Preludes and Saffron Beneath Every Frost were published from Elik Press. His poems have appeared in Interim, Isotope, Gulf Coast, Rhino, Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Karamu, Bellingham Review, Sou'wester, Prairie Schooner, Willow Springs, Hurricane Review, Poems and Plays, Greensboro Review, Evansville Review, New Orleans Review, Tulane Review, and Seattle Review and anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation, Essential Love, and Fresh Water. He received the Mayor’s Artist Award for Literary Arts at the Utah Arts Festival and the Writers Advocate Award from Writers at Work.