Joseph S. Pete

Joseph S. Pete is an award-winning journalist, an Iraq War veteran, an Indiana University graduate, and a frequent guest on Lakeshore Public Radio. Pete is the author of the books Lost Hammond, Indiana, 100 Things to Do in Gary and Northwest Indiana Before You Die, Secret Northwest Indiana, and the forthcoming Lost East Chicago and Indiana Harbor. Pete is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominee who has read his work for the Fictitious series on the iO Theater stage in Chicago, had a play staged at the Detroit Heritage Theatre Festival and another at the Veterans 10-Minute Play Festival at Salem State University outside Boston, showcased his photography at the Oddtropolis Art Show in San Francisco and was named the poet laureate of Chicago Bacon Fest, a feat that Geoffrey Chaucer never accomplished. His literary or photographic work has appeared in more than 100 journals, including The Tipton Poetry Journal, the Indiana Voice Journal, Indiana University Northwest's Spirits, Punchnel's, Flying Island, Chicago Literati, Dogzplot, Proximity Magazine, Stoneboat, The High Window, Synesthesia Literary Journal, Steep Street Journal, Beautiful Losers, New Pop Lit, The Grief Diaries, Gravel, The Offbeat, Oddball Magazine, The Perch Magazine, Bull Men's Fiction, Rising Phoenix Review, Thoughtful Dog, shufPoetry, The Roaring Muse, Prairie Winds, Blue Collar Review, Euphemism, Jenny Magazine, Vending Machine Press and elsewhere. He serves as a board member of the Indiana Society of Professional Journalists and has contributed essays to the book Indiana at 200: A Celebration of the Hoosier State and The Gary Anthology by Belt Publishing. Like Bartleby, he would prefer not to.