His reviews, essays, poems and short stories have appeared in Paterson Literary review, The Literati Quarterly, Rattle, Barnstorm, Blue Collar Review, Lips, The Boston Review, North American Review, Omniverse, New York Times, New York Quarterly, The Louisiana Review, The Saranac Review, and Chicago Quarterly Review, among many others. He has four full-length collections of poetry; his latest collection of poems is The Great Grandmother Light published by NYQ Books. In 2013 he was the recipient of the People's Poetry Award by Partisan Press. He has poems forthcoming in Plume and The Comstock Review. Joe Weil co-founded Monk books with Bianca Stone and Adam Fitzgerald. He has since created Cat in the Sun books with his wife Emily Vogel. Having grown up in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Weil now lives in Binghamton with Emily and two small children, Clare and Gabriel.