Joseph Rakowski is a creative writer, editor, and marketing strategist. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing, Fiction, from the University of San Francisco. He has led content teams at Amazon Web Services, IBM, and Golden Gate Fields. At AWS, he managed a team of 15 writers and editors, optimized content for hundreds of product pages, and developed communications for global conferences. At IBM, he worked with writers and product teams to build marketing strategies and content workflows for US and India teams. He has created content for websites, blogs, white papers, case studies, emails, eBooks, social media, and digital and print campaigns.

Joseph’s short fiction has appeared in PhD, MFA, and independent journals in the United States and Canada, including Driftwood Press, The Carolina Quarterly (UNC), The Antigonish Review (St. Francis Xavier University), New South (Georgia State University), New Ohio Review (Ohio University), Witness Magazine (Black Mountain Institute, UNLV), The Normal School (Fresno State), PANK Magazine, and The Baltimore Review.

He also works extensively in nonfiction. His article “UF Health at the Forefront of Equestrian Medicine: Injury Prevention, Performance Optimization, and Comprehensive Care at the World Equestrian Center” appears through University of Florida Health, a premier academic health system encompassing the UF College of Medicine, UF Health Shands Hospital, and UF Health Cancer Center.

His nonfiction also includes long-form interviews with acclaimed writers: “Interview with Adam Johnson, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award,” published in The Rumpus; and “Interview with Jim Harrison, author and Guggenheim Fellow, Mark Twain Award recipient, and American Academy of Arts & Letters inductee,” published in 3G1B.

Joseph has served as editor, substantive editor, or proofreader for the following: This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! and Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison, both published by Algonquin Books; Finding Soldiers of Peace: Three Dilemmas for UN Peacekeeping Missions by Dr. Gary Uzonyi, published by Georgetown University Press; Dr. Uzonyi’s article “Genocide, Politicide, and Mass Atrocities Against Civilian Populations” for Oxford Bibliographies in International Relations, published by Oxford University Press; and State-Committed Mass Atrocities in Civil Wars: When … and Why? by Dr. Gary Uzonyi, published by Lynne Rienner Publishers.