About Joel Turnipseed

Joel Turnipseed served in Operation Desert Shield/Storm in the Sixth Motor Transport Battalion of the United States Marine Corps during the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War. After studying philosophy and creative writing at the University of Minnesota, he became a technical writer and software developer. In 2000, he started his own software company, Archemedia, which was named one of the Twin Cities' hottest web technology companies by Twin Cities Business Monthly in 2001. He sold the company in the summer of 2002.

Joel Turnipseed's writing has appeared in GQ, The New York Times Magazine, Salon.com and other journals. He is also a frequent reviewer of books for Rain Taxi. He has been a Bread Loaf Scholar, a Loft Creative Nonfiction award winner, and a recipient of a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship. An avid Go player, Joel Turnipseed began writing in a bi-weekly column for the American Go Association in August 2003.

He currently lives with his beautiful and loving wife, Lyra Hernandez, in Minneapolis, MN, where he is at work on both a book-length nonfiction project and a novel.