Janine Joseph is a poet and liberalist from the Philippines. She is the author of the poetry collections Decade of the Brain and Driving without a License and the co-editor of the anthology Here to Stay: Poetry and Prose from the Undocumented Diaspora. She is also the author of several commissioned chamber operas, song cycles, and choral works for Symphony New Hampshire, Washington Master Chorale, and the Houston Grand Opera. Since 2016, she has organized for Undocupoets, a nonprofit literary organization that advocates for poets who are currently or were formerly undocumented in the U.S. She teaches at Virginia Tech.