Joshua Eric Williams is a disabled veteran, poet, nature writer, critic, and essayist from Carrollton, GA. He won the 2014 Eclectic Poetry Award, and his haiku collection, The Strangest Conversation, was an honorable mention for the 2020 Haiku Society of America’s Merit Book Award. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in many print and online journals, including Measure, Literary Matters, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, and Rattle. Consoling Nature, a haiga collection, is available through Amazon. Visit his website at thesmallestwords.com or follow him on Twitter (@hungerfield) or Instagram (joshua_eric_williams).