Joshua Silavent is an award-winning journalist and educator based in the greater Atlanta area. He was named the 2016 Beat Reporter of the Year in Georgia by the Associated Press for his extensive reporting on poverty. Furthermore, his reporting and independent homeless outreach earned him the 2019 Martin Luther King Jr. Drum Major of the Year Award from the Newtown Florist Club, a 70-year-old civil rights organization in Gainesville, Georgia. Silavent also writes lyrical, narrative and "reportorial" poetry and short fiction. His work has appeared in Driftwood Press, Prometheus Dreaming, Sky Island Journal, New Plains Review, Fearsome Critters and Pinky Thinker Press.