View fullsize Joe and Tim Murphy, touting each other's books at the OutWrite LGBT Book Festival in Washington, D.C. View fullsize Newtown Literary staffers posing during a Lit Crawl. Joe served as Newtown's prose editor and is currently on the editorial review board. View fullsize With Danish Girl author David Ebershoff at Housing Works Bookstore Cafe, NYC. View fullsize Hosting an event at East City Book Shop in Washington, D.C. View fullsize A sketch of Joe by an unknown NYC subway artist. View fullsize A fan reading Jazz Moon in Paris. View fullsize Joe writes books and edits them, too. He oversaw the anthology, Best Gay Stories 2017. View fullsize Joe's shoes for the Lambda Literary Awards where his novel Jazz Moon was a finalist for Best Gay Fiction. View fullsize Joe's Newtown Literary interview with superstar poet Rigoberto González. View fullsize Reading at Revolution Books in Harlem. View fullsize Joe leading a writing workshop at Queens Library in conjunction with Newtown Literary. View fullsize Joe reading at a Men of All Colors Together event at the LGBT Center in NYC. View fullsize Joe in Astoria, Queens, posing with his just-delivered author copy of his new collection, Kiss the Scars on the Back of My Neck. View fullsize Kiss the Scars on display! Photo by Michael Nava View fullsize Kiss the Scars displayed at The Astoria Bookshop in Joe's home borough of Queens, NYC. View fullsize Sign promoting Joe's reading at Bureau of General Services Queer Division—the one gay bookstore in all of NYC. View fullsize Virtual Event with Matt Caprioli, author of the memoir, One Headlight. View fullsize Joe with poet Sokunthary Svay and novelist Scott Alexander Hess, posing before their reading at NYC's iconic KGB Bar. View fullsize The writers of Amble Press at LitCrawl 2021 in San Francisco. Joe read from his short story "You Can't Do That to Gladys Bentley." View fullsize Signing Kiss the Scars for a fan at the iconic Giovanni's Room bookstore in Philadelphia. View fullsize Kiss the Scars was awarded a silver medal from the Independent Book Publisher Awards in the LGBT fiction category. View fullsize Joe with Matthew Clark Davison, author of the novel Doubting Thomas. View fullsize Chatting with Edgar Gomez, author of High-Risk Homosexual, at the P-town Book Festival. View fullsize Contemplative.